Sentence examples for confinement in which from inspiring English sources

The strike was organized to protest the state's use of solitary confinement, in which some inmates have been held for years or even decades.

But Judge Coughenour said in his sentence that he was also taking into account the harsh conditions of solitary confinement in which Mr. Ressam has spent much of the past decade.

He referred to solitary confinement, in which he was held for sixty days — ostensibly to protect him from a population not known to be fond of the police — as "a mind-altering cruel and unusual punishment".

Even prisoners, it seems, can live in liberty, even — or perhaps especially — in the sort of solitary confinement in which Miss Helen, a gentle pariah, has existed for 15 years.

Breivik, who killed 77 people in July 2011 in the country's worst acts of violence since the second world war, took the Norwegian authorities to court last month, alleging that the solitary confinement in which he had been held for nearly five years breached the European convention on human rights.

The oldest of these is magnetic confinement, in which strong magnetic fields act as the "walls" of a container.

A tokamak is a toroidal magnetic confinement system in which the plasma is kept stable both by an externally generated, doughnut-shaped magnetic field and by electric currents flowing within the plasma.

This effect is related to the quantum confinement effect in which the electrons in the structure are trapped in the sphere potential well of the gold shell.

The origin of such luminescence is often associated to quantum confinement effects in which the position of the PL energy peak depends fundamentally on the nanoparticle size.

Semiconductor nanocrystals have received much attention due to quantum confinement effect, in which the continuous optical transitions between the electronic bands in the bulk crystals become discrete in the nanocrystals and thereby the properties of the nano-sized materials become size-dependent [1 3].

Because of the irresponsibility of an Iowa factory farmer, more than 1,000 animals recently perished from that very manure pit gas which had built up underneath the confinement operation in which they were trapped for their whole lives.