Example sentences of "five [noun] ' imprisonment " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , even without the Mowatt extension , one might ask whether the distinction between intention ( section 18 ) and recklessness ( section 20 ) is so wide in crimes of violence , often impulsive reactions to events , as to warrant the difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment . |
| 2 | Moreover , the maximum penalty for the section 47 offence is five years ' imprisonment , with no apparent justification for the strange approach of making the penalty equivalent to the higher offence on the ‘ ladder ’ ( the section 20 offence ) , and the fault requirement equivalent to the lower offence on the ‘ ladder ’ ( common assault , with a maximum of six months ' imprisonment ) . |
| 3 | In order to support this position , one has to accept : ( i ) that the intention — recklessness distinction is the most significant dividing line for serious injuries , more relevant than factors such as premeditation or provocation ; ( ii ) that this is a workable distinction for the courts , especially in impulsive crimes , where the definition of intention may be fulfilled by a momentary realization of what is happening ; ( iii ) that it is so significant that a difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment is appropriate ; and ( iv ) that there is not a strong case for phrasing the offences in terms of endangerment rather than of causing physical harm . |
| 4 | The offender , a Moroccan international footballer , was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment for grievous bodily harm . |
| 5 | Sentencing Serjeant to five years ' imprisonment , Lord Lane ( the Lord Chief Justice ) said : ‘ The public sense of outrage must be marked . |
| 6 | The majority considered that such cases should in future be dealt with under the Sexual Offences Act 1956 , s.3(1) , which makes it a crime to procure a woman by false pretences or false representations to have unlawful sexual intercourse in any part of the world and that the penalty for this offence should be raised from two to five years ' imprisonment . |
| 7 | The alternative for prosecutors is to accept a plea to a non-sexual offence such as assault occasioning actual bodily harm or unlawful wounding which carry maximum penalties of five years ' imprisonment . |
| 8 | Category D , carrying a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment , would cover indecent assaults not involving penetration . |
| 9 | Each of the perjury charges carried a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 , while the possession charges carried maximum sentences of one year and a fine of $100,000 . |
| 10 | Two other men , W. Franklyn Chinn , Meese 's former investment adviser , and Rusty Kent London , a financial consultant , who had also been convicted , were sentenced to three and five years ' imprisonment and fined $100,000 and $250,000 respectively [ for earlier developments in Wedtech case see pp. 35502-03 ; 36679 ] . |
| 11 | Five members of the ( then banned ) South African African National Congress ( ANC ) were sentenced in July 1989 in Gaborone to five years ' imprisonment in July 1989 for possessing AK-47 rifles and ammunition . |
| 12 | On June 27 , 1990 , at the end of a 16-day trial , he was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment for breaking foreign trade laws , for not declaring income liable to taxes DM16,000,000 , and for playing a " decisive role " in the planning and construction of the Rabta complex [ for attempted suicide of managing director of Imhausen-Chemie in February 1989 see p. 36477 ] . |
| 13 | In July 1990 James Smith , Minister of Labour in the previous JLP adminstration , was convicted of fraud involving misappropriation of payments for Jamaicans working on farms in North America , and was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment and hard labour . |
| 14 | On Feb. 25 , two alleged GKN members , Imran Hasan and Hasbi Abdullah were sentenced to seven and five years ' imprisonment respectively on national security grounds . |
| 15 | After a five-hour trial Bao was sentenced by the People 's Intermediate Court to five years ' imprisonment for " inciting " counter-revolutionary activities and to four years for " divulging state secrets " . |
| 16 | Membership of a " terrorist group " was punishable by five years ' imprisonment and it also became a crime to possess " directly or indirectly " written or recorded materials condoning " terrorist " activity . |
| 17 | Under the new law electors found guilty of malpractice faced fines of up to 5,000 naira ( US$1=18.45 naira as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) and two years ' imprisonment , while anyone who was banned from participating in the political process but who was found guilty of supporting or sponsoring a candidate was liable to a 10,000 naira fine and five years ' imprisonment . |
| 18 | The leniency of Kanemaru 's treatment was highlighted when , on the same day , Kiyoshi Kaneko was charged with falsely reporting a donation , an indictment which involved a public trial and carried a penalty of five years ' imprisonment or a fine of 300,000 yen . |
| 19 | Both sections have the same maximum punishment , five years ' imprisonment , yet s.20 , which deals with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm , is seen as the more serious defence , yet that gravity may now depend on chance . |
| 20 | Saunders was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment but in the event he served only ten months having been released on the grounds that he was suffering from a dementia condition akin to Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 21 | This new law was put into practice two weeks before my son 's death , and carried with it a maximum sentence of five years ' imprisonment . |