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Example sentences for: imprisonment

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When a troubled and illiterate 19-year-old can receive life imprisonment for committing three muggings, it seems laughably irrelevant to focus on courtroom procedures.
The Beijing government has stifled every remaining dissident through exile, imprisonment, or intimidation.
It is flanked by a building that protected aristocratic debtors (known as the Abbey Lairds) from arrest and certain imprisonment; civil authorities had no jurisdiction within the Abbey grounds and could not enter to arrest them.
It accused Starr of treating "the pitiful lie of a seducer" as a state crime that could, in theory, lead to a year's imprisonment.
An uncomfortable Dukakis, after dispassionately reciting statistics, conceded that the Massachusetts furlough program for murderers sentenced to life imprisonment had been canceled .