Sentence examples for being under house from inspiring English sources

Among them was Xu Zhiyong, a well-known legal activist, who was accused of "gathering a crowd to disturb order in a public place", despite being under house arrest.

The correspondent Holly Williams and the cameraman Andrew Portch were recognized for their coverage of the human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who fled China after years of being under house arrest for his work exposing how some Chinese women were forced to have abortions in order to comply with the country's one-child policy.

It's like being under house arrest.

Suppose Warren Buffett is right about the stock market's being under house arrest for another ten years.

Suppose Warren Buffett is right about the stock mar-ket's being under house arrest for another ten years.

Mega-swindler Bernard Madoff whines about being under house arrest in his multi-million-dollar penthouse apartment.

You have to look elsewhere…" Perhaps an unemployed director is like a taxi driver, cruising the streets, looking to pick up ideas, but benignly: an anti-Travis Bickle, and perhaps being under house-arrest feels like being a driver unable to leave his cab.

She is under house arrest.

Captain Schettino is under house arrest.

After 1967 I was under house arrest".

He was later convicted and is under house arrest.