Sentence examples for essentially imprisoned from inspiring English sources

This is why refugees are essentially imprisoned and kept dependent on international largesse.

Almost everyone I spoke to was quick to point out that guards and inmates are essentially imprisoned together.

The Shabab has also blocked starving people from leaving its territory and has even set up its own large displaced persons camp about 25 miles from Mogadishu where families trying to escape Shabab territory are essentially imprisoned.

So why are they essentially imprisoned?

"If you're elderly or disabled, you're essentially imprisoned," said DeBruyn, 70.

They're still essentially imprisoned by the water surrounding Nauru, but the prison is larger and more air conditioned than previously.

The Shabab-run camp that Mr. Almuhajir visited is on Mogadishu's outskirts, and it is where the Shabab have been essentially imprisoning thousands of starving people.

It was filed in 2005 by James Cheney and his mother to contest Diane Wells's claims of being an owner of Apartment 9B, arguing that she got it through coercion while, essentially, imprisoning her mother there.

"The Chinaman," as she calls her husband, essentially keeps her imprisoned in his grocery, where he controls all transactions and doles out family necessities.

Imprisoned and essentially chained to an IV pole, I would stare out my hospital room window at the people below, and feel a rush of the purest envy for their routine pursuits.

We have seen broad acceptance of mandatory detention, sexual violence and child abuse of refugees and asylum seekers imprisoned in Nauru and Manus Island, essentially because they are predominantly brown and Muslim.