Sentence examples for convicted of owning from inspiring English sources

One concerns a man charged with violating a federal statute prohibiting individuals under domestic violence restraining orders from carrying guns; the other involves a man convicted of owning machine guns, which is illegal under federal law.

The men, Kayson Pearson, 24, and Troy Hendrix, 22, were acquitted of wielding handmade knives, though Mr. Pearson was convicted of owning a sharpened end of plexiglass he claimed to keep in his haunches at all times during his incarceration, which is scheduled to occupy the duration of his natural life.

These includes laws prohibiting carrying concealed weapons and laws barring people convicted of felonies from owning guns.

"I sat there for a long time that night deeply convicted of my own sin".

"I've always felt," he said, "that the true strength of the Senate lay in the center, not on the right and not on the left, but with those people who could see both sides and were not so convicted of their own assumptions that they wouldn't listen to the other side".

This month, he is expected to sign a law barring individuals convicted of domestic abuse from owning a gun.

They are not, as one might hope, enacting laws that would prevent men convicted of domestic violence from owning firearms, even though that would save precious female lives.

Yet if "evil" can be used in these cavalier ways – from a political party, and an animal, to a woman convicted of kidnapping her own daughter, does it have any meaning at all?

In May 2004, a teenage boy became the first person in Britain to be convicted of inciting their own murder.

And he described Cameron's decision to link the case of Karen Matthews - who was convicted of kidnapping her own daughter - with the welfare bill as "possibly the most depressing and shameful moment of all my time in politics".

Mr. Genson has also defended Mr. Blagojevich's predecessor as governor, George Ryan, a Republican who was found guilty of corruption charges, and Conrad M. Black, the media mogul who was convicted of defrauding his own company.