Example sentences of "imprisonment [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legislation was passed which required that persons who had been sentenced to an aggregate of more than three months imprisonment during the past seven years be committed to a superior court when charged with another offence . |
| 2 | Among the possible prisoners of conscience are 37 people sentenced to up to 20 years ' imprisonment for their involvement in a peaceful flag-raising ceremony in the town of Jayapura on 14 December 1988 . |
| 3 | In January 1991 Hong Song-dam was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment for producing material benefiting North Korea . |
| 4 | In December 1983 he was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for ‘ opposing the revolution ’ . |
| 5 | Ngawang Buchung was sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for activities in support of Tibetan independence , which included circulating Tibetan translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 6 | Mohamed Srifi , a literature student , was sentenced in 1977 to 30 years ’ imprisonment for advocating that Morocco become a socialist republic . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | People 's Republic of China Father Jin Dechen : the 71-year-old Catholic Vicar-General of Nanyang diocese , Henan Province , he was sentenced in July 1982 to 15 years ' imprisonment for ‘ counterrevolutionary ’ offences . |
| 9 | In 1982 Mrs Chamberlain was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder , while her husband was convicted as an accessory and given a suspended 18-month jail term . |
| 10 | THE MAN sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of the Swedish prime minister , Olof Palme , was acquitted yesterday after the appeal court overturned the verdict against him . |
| 11 | He is understood to be pressing ahead with the rest of the agenda set by his predecessor , Mr Douglas Hurd , including a white paper proposing less use of imprisonment for non-violent offenders . |
| 12 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 13 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 14 | Soon after the Communist takeover , he fell foul of the ultra-Stalinists and , as a Slovak , was sentenced to life imprisonment for ‘ bourgeois nationalism ’ . |
| 15 | A New Zealand man was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an English tourist , Monica Cantwell . |
| 16 | Some death-penalty supporters advance the argument that it is unfair on taxpayers to expect them to finance a convict 's imprisonment for life . |
| 17 | Since 1869 imprisonment for debt has been rare , and by the Administration of justice Act 1970 it has been completely abolished , and replaced by the remedy of attachment of earnings , i.e. a procedure whereby a portion of the debtor 's earnings may be directed by the court to be paid direct to the creditor . |
| 18 | He explained the new Act which carried imprisonment for those liable to be subversive . |
| 19 | In 1983 the Home Secretary imposed restrictions on the release of persons serving life for murders of police- and prison-officers , terrorist killings , murder during robbery , and the sadistic or sexual murder of young children , fixing a minimum of twenty years ' imprisonment for these offenders . |
| 20 | However , the House of Lords preferred to see a conviction for murder in these cases , with the use of executive discretion to secure an early release from the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for offenders who killed when under duress , and thus appear to have reduced culpability . |
| 21 | The mandatory penalty of life imprisonment for murder makes issues of relative culpability non-justiciable at present , since the length of imprisonment is ‘ determined or partly determined behind the scenes by someone who has not heard any representations by or on behalf of the prisoner on grounds which the prisoner does not know ’ . |
| 22 | Mrs Mandela , who was sentenced to six years imprisonment for complicity to kidnap and assault , is free on bail pending an appeal . |
| 23 | Gilbert Petrides has produced the 52-minute video film , Fabris has written the book — which , I am told , contains exclusive documents on the painter 's years of imprisonment for alcoholism . |
| 24 | Africans received laws , fines and even imprisonment for certain agricultural and pastoral practices ( and the other restrictions which enabled Europeans to realise their economic interests of the day ) , while European settlers received physical infrastructure , loans , and an agricultural extension service backed by research stations which researched commercial crops for commercial farmers . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Non-compliance with the licence conditions is a criminal offence and would result in a fine not exceeding £1000 on summary conviction , or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years , or a fine or both . |
| 27 | The man who in 1788 wrote the pamphlet New Candid and Practical Thoughts on the Law of Imprisonment for Debt & c , shared the attitude of the majority in condemning the ability of a creditor to confine his debtor where there was no question of fraud or abuse of credit . |
| 28 | The passing of the Insolvent Debtors Act in August 1844 ( 7 & 8 Victoria cap 96 ) , abolishing imprisonment for debts of less than £20 , however , was widely welcomed . |
| 29 | In 1859 the legislators were still wrestling with ( so far ) insuperable objections to abolishing imprisonment for debt . |
| 30 | The Lord Chancellor said the bill was entirely one of principle : abolition of imprisonment for debt except in cases of fraud , no more distinction between traders and non-traders , debtors able to liquidate their liabilities by private arrangement or by a public enquiry in the Insolvent Court . |