Sentence examples for core of prisoners from inspiring English sources

The story of their unusual and complicated friendship is at the core of "Prisoners," weaving its way through the narrative like a serpentine question mark.

President Obama's plan to close Guantánamo — thwarted by Congress — had always recognized that there would be a small core of prisoners who could not be tried because of the nature of the evidence against them or the illegal way that evidence was obtained.

In The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World, by Thomas Keneally (Anchor, $18), the author of "Schindler's List" tells the story of the Irish diaspora in the 19th century, especially the thousands of men and women sent in chains to penal colonies in Australia, among them a core of political prisoners who continued to fight for an independent Ireland.

"The individual casework focus may be kept less on those core traditional issues of prisoners of conscience and torture.

Some fifty-six Yemenis form the core of a group of eighty-six prisoners who have been cleared for release.

The core of Beethoven's opera — the "Prisoners' Chorus" — has been captured in the live audio and video recordings of six Midwestern prison choirs comprising over 130 singers, including Voices of Hope, a women's prison choir in Minnesota founded and directed by Yale School of Music alumna Amanda Weber '13 M.F.A.

At the core of the issue is a debate about which matters more, the comfort of prisoners or that of the people who watch them die.

The core of the APA position – which was appended to DOD policies – was that psychologists worked for interrogators and had no responsibility for the health of prisoners.

But 75% of prisoners are illiterate.

Hundreds of prisoners were shipped to Mendocino.

A crowd of prisoners gathered around.