Example sentences of "imprisonment by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1990 a police officer accused of distributing copies of a patriotic song to high-school students was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment by a military court . |
| 2 | But she added that prosecution and imprisonment by a criminal court did not serve the interests of the family as a whole , or of the child who remained part of it , or how victims would deal with contact with the abuser after release . |
| 3 | He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by Mr Justice Jowitt . |
| 4 | P.C. Alexander Thom was sentenced to two months imprisonment by the Stipendiary Magistrate for stealing four oranges worth threepence from a shed at Liverpool Docks where he was patrolling . |
| 5 | Most people do n't care if they live or die , but a few are willing to risk imprisonment by going on to the streets to hand out clean syringes . |
| 6 | Xanana Gusmao , a former resistance leader in East Timor , was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Indonesian court for , among several charges , trying to set up a separate state . |
| 7 | The reason for this inexorable rise in numbers lies in the use of imprisonment by British courts both before and after trial . |
| 8 | After his release from jail Leese decided to challenge the validity of his imprisonment by publishing My Irrelevant Defence , a lengthy justification of his charge that the Jews ritually murdered Christian children for their blood at Passover . |
| 9 | When , however , the hostilities did begin , for most Frenchmen they ended , ignominiously , with imprisonment by the Japanese while for those in the north who together with their Vietnamese riflemen fought the Japanese with exemplary heroism , dying in beleaguered garrisons or making a fighting retreat to the Chinese border , their fate precipitated the most unpleasant or at least the most unfortunate disagreement between the Allies . |
| 10 | The officer in command of a military unit which in July 1986 burned to death a photographer , Rodrigo Rojas de Negri , and severely burned his colleague , Carmen Quintana Arancibia [ see p. 34985 ] was in August 1989 condemned to 300 days ' imprisonment by a military court . |
| 11 | Daphne Parish , a British nurse sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment by an Iraqi military court on March 10 [ see p. 37332 ] , was unexpectedly freed on July 16 . |
| 12 | On Dec. 15 , 1989 , Habib Maamar , 27 , from Tunisia , was sentenced to life imprisonment by a special assize court for two bomb attacks in Paris . |
| 13 | Another member of the García Meza administration in 1980-81 , Col. Luis Arce Gómez , was on March 22 sentenced to 30 years ' imprisonment by a court in Miami on two drug-trafficking charges ( for conclusion of trial on Jan. 9 , see p. 37958 ) . |
| 14 | In November 1985 Khaled , a member of the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ) , had been sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by an Italian court for his role in the hijacking a month earlier of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro [ see pp. 34077-78 ] . |
| 15 | In the first trial of members of the extreme left Red Army Faction who had been given refuge in the former East Germany [ see p. 37828 ] , Susanne Albrecht was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment by a Stuttgart court on June 3 . |
| 16 | Klaus Barbie , 77 , the Gestapo commander in Lyon in 1942-44 , who was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment by a French court in 1987 [ see p. 35417 ] , died in a prison hospital in Lyon on Sept. 25 ; he was cremated and his ashes were flown to Austria … |
| 17 | Klaus Kuron , a former employee of the West German intelligence service ( the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ) was sentenced on Feb. 7 to 12 years ' imprisonment by a court in Düsseldorf on charges of treason and corruption , and fined DM692,000 ( the sum which he had been paid by the East German government ) , for passing secret information obtained through his position in the West German intelligence agency , especially relating to West German secret agents in East Germany , over a period of nine years . |
| 18 | The defence sought to discredit Gravano as a " serial killer " and habitual liar who was seeking to evade life imprisonment by striking a deal with the authorities . |
| 19 | Although the sentences were to run consecutively , the court was reported to have reduced the total period of imprisonment by two years as a gesture of goodwill . |
| 20 | A BRITON has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Philippine court for drug smuggling , it was reported today . |