Sentence examples for affray from inspiring English sources

Innocent, hard-working people were arrested for pushing or being shoved on the picket line and hauled up in court for serious offences like affray.

The 23-year-old was charged with affray, serious assault on police and steroids possession after a raid on a Greenslopes home on Wednesday.

But Russia had entered the affray with aplomb, playing a central part in the search for a diplomatic way out.

Those convicted could face as long as seven years in jail, as well as a caning.Booze seems to have fuelled the affray, and as a stopgap a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol in Little India will apply this weekend.

As burgomaster of Lwów for many years, he witnessed the Cossack rebellion against Polish rule in the Ukraine (1648 49) and wrote two versified narratives of the event: Kozaczyzna ("The Cossacks") and Burda Ruska ("The Ruthenian Affray").

Perceived by the courts as a throwback to a less-civilized past, prizefighting was classified as an affray, an assault, and a riot.

Among these offenses are affray, unlawful assembly, riot, forcible entry and detainer, disturbance of public assemblies, keeping a disorderly house, and malicious mischief.

Upon his return the following year, he was killed during an affray with a number of Hawaiians at Kealakekua Bay.

While he was acquitted of the Catford murder, he received five years for affray, and 10 years for his role in torture at the Richardson's Peckham scrapyard.

Mr Justice Royce said neither sentence was manifestly excessive in what was a serious affray.

Vassell, 25, of Hammersmith, west London, who denied affray and said he only acted to protect Dappy, was found guilty and jailed for 14 months.