Sentence examples for from penal from inspiring English sources
In Ireland, there are many such rocks, which date from penal times in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the Catholic majority were persecuted by the occupying British.
But a century after this island started to shift from penal colony to energy colony, foreign businessmen say their freedom of movement is being limited by a new set of shackles, this time made of paper.
Michael Gove's promises in his first major speech on prisons to close down "ageing and ineffective" Victorian jails and to consider introducing an "earned release scheme" for studious inmates has won him widespread plaudits from penal reform groups.
"She'll be right, mate" is an everyday phrase that passes for a national code of equality and solidarity, one that shows something good can emerge from penal colony origins.
"I have seen the eyes of women from Penal Colony #2, eyes full of silent fear and resignation … Unlike in my colony, where the administration prefers to use the hands of other inmates to punish the undesirables, there prison staff themselves beat the inmates who attempt to protest or resist; they place them in solitary, where only two arguments are used: the beatings and the cold".
Varying perceptions and public understanding of addiction may have great influence on the handling of the challenges and harms connected to the phenomenon, ranging from penal or therapeutic measures to individual or societal strategies, as well as impacting on the time perspective for action.
Probably the most famous are "Jack Maggs" (1998), which reimagines Dickens's "Great Expectations" from the point of view of Magwitch, Pip's benefactor, newly returned from the penal colony down under; and "True History of the Kelly Gang" (2001), which recounts the story of Ned Kelly, the Australian outlaw and folk hero, in Kelly's own words, vivid, expansive and unpunctuated.
"He copied paragraphs directly from the penal code.
These women came from a penal colony for repeat offenders.
In California, the word "rehabilitation" was expunged from the penal code's mission statement in 1976.
"DNA from all penal law convictions would keep predators off our streets, prevent violent crime, and bring justice for victims".
