Example sentences of "['s] imprisonment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hamadi Jebali : a 51-year-old newspaper editor from Sousse , he was sentenced by the military court in Tunis on 31 January 1991 to one year 's imprisonment for publishing an article calling for the abolition of military courts . |
| 2 | He was sentenced to a year 's imprisonment , suspended for 12 months , and ordered to pay £500 costs and compensation . |
| 3 | Only three weeks ago , Benidorm 's public prosecutor demanded a year 's imprisonment and a fine if the MP were to be convicted on a charge of obstructing the police . |
| 4 | Some death-penalty supporters advance the argument that it is unfair on taxpayers to expect them to finance a convict 's imprisonment for life . |
| 5 | Laymen who did not hold land worth forty shillings a year , and clerks who did not have a benefice worth ten pounds a year , were forbidden to keep a greyhound or other dog , on pain of one year 's imprisonment . |
| 6 | Anna is a Russian poet , visiting London to drum up signatures for a petition protesting against her brother 's imprisonment in the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Because he was so old and feeble , Baxter 's imprisonment attracted a great deal of sympathy from many people , and was becoming an embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 8 | shady lawyer practising in the Insolvent Court , who ‘ arranges ’ Sam Weller 's imprisonment in the Fleet so that he may remain with Pickwick . |
| 9 | David as a child ‘ sustained my own idea ’ of Roderick Random , the scapegrace selfish hero of this picaresque novel , ‘ for a month at a stretch ’ , could see Roderick 's faithful servant Strap at the wicket of Blunderstone church , and when Micawber went to the King 's Bench , remembered Roderick 's imprisonment for debt ( chap . |
| 10 | Sally Brass was rumoured to have been seen here as a Foot Guards private on sentry-go after her brother 's imprisonment , OCS 88 . |
| 11 | ‘ Sunnie 's courage and fighting spirit throughout Jackie 's imprisonment made her a national figure , ’ he said . |
| 12 | In 1977 yet another alibi witness surfaced , one Richard Hurn , who knew nothing of the case or of McMahon 's imprisonment but told a friend that he remembered seeing McMahon in London on the afternoon of the murder , a date which for other reasons he had cause to remember . |
| 13 | Connolly was sentenced to one day 's imprisonment , after which he applied for a summons against the labour master for alleged assault . |
| 14 | During John Balliol 's imprisonment Edward had appointed John de Warenne , Earl of Surrey , as Guardian of Scotland . |
| 15 | He was arraigned on three different charges and sentenced to three periods of one year 's imprisonment with hard labour to run consecutively . |
| 16 | Sentence : six year 's imprisonment . |
| 17 | ( S. ) 487 , where a young woman who had been raped took part in an attack on the man responsible , after he had been released from a sentence of 18 month 's imprisonment after serving six months . |
| 18 | We also appealed to the Government to respond to an extraordinary press conference given by the Iranian chargé d'affaires in London on the anniversary of Terry Waite 's imprisonment a few weeks ago , but no-one took much notice of that , either . |
| 19 | Samantha Sherratt , who is compiling the Information Pack , would be glad to hear from people with any comments or details of problems they faced following a partner 's imprisonment . |
| 20 | In 1922 Hannington received his first term of a month 's imprisonment for uttering seditious words . |
| 21 | Although the government continued to think him dangerous — and there are signs that he may have remained in the revamped United Irish movement during his brother 's imprisonment — in 1803 he advised Thomas Russell [ q.v. ] against rebellion and there is no evidence of treasonable activity thereafter . |
| 22 | The offence of ‘ common assault , ’ as it is known , is triable either way , and punishable with six months when tried summarily , but with one year 's imprisonment if tried on indictment . |
| 23 | On the following day Barry was charged with possessing crack — an offence punishable by up to one year 's imprisonment — and was released without bail pending a further hearing on Feb. 5 . |
| 24 | In addition to criminalizing both the practice and receipt of abortions , the law also made the provision of information concerning abortion a crime punishable by up to one year 's imprisonment . |
| 25 | Gerald Ronson , the chief executive of the Heron Corporation , a privately owned property and petrol retailing company , had been convicted on one conspiracy charge , two false accounting charges and one theft charge , and was sentenced to one year 's imprisonment as well as being fined £5,000,000 — the largest fine ever imposed by an English court . |
| 26 | Although the charge carried a maximum penalty of one year 's imprisonment and a $100,000 fine , Barry 's sentence was widely considered to be harsh for a first offence . |
| 27 | The Diet gave its final approval on Oct. 3 to a bill imposing up to a year 's imprisonment on brokers who violated a new law making all shareholder compensation schemes by brokers illegal , and up to six months for clients who requested paybacks . |
| 28 | The former mayor of Nice , Jacques Médecin , was found guilty on Jan. 6 of misusing public funds and was sentenced in absentia to one year 's imprisonment , ordered to pay nearly F2,500,000 ( about US$480,000 ) in fines and civil damages , and barred from holding public office for life . |
| 29 | Michel Gbagbo , son of the IPF leader , and 44 others were sentenced to one year 's imprisonment . |
| 30 | Angela Kinsella , 28 , of High Northgate , Darlington , was sentenced to a month 's imprisonment yesterday for causing fear or provocation of violence , resisting a police constable and stealing a shirt from a clothes shop . |