Sentence examples for if imprisoned from inspiring English sources

It is impossible for the human spirit to soar if imprisoned in such grim surroundings.

The ruling said that both the law and the rulings required prison sentences for those guilty of such offenses, unless it was shown in court that they had an "idiosyncratic" nature and would face "serious injustice" if imprisoned.

Each letter is separated from the others as if imprisoned, evoking both the density and the loneliness of the city, and challenging the reader to make "sense" of the lapidary inscriptions.

Slaves who survived recalled the endless work of turning the forests of cane into sugar, moving as if imprisoned in a state of half-consciousness, harvesting the sugar soon to be sent down to the docks where the cargo ships lay waiting.

Ben Cooper, the barrister representing Love at the extradition hearing, said he should be prosecuted in the UK for his alleged hacking so he could remain on bail and, if imprisoned, stay close to his father, who is a Baptist minister and prison chaplain.

Susman wrote: "PM Brown, in a one-on-one meeting with the ambassador, proposed a deal: that McKinnon plead guilty, make a statement of contrition, but serve any sentence of incarceration in the UK. Brown cited deep public concern that McKinnon, with his medical condition, would commit suicide or suffer injury if imprisoned in a US facility".

Angie, teacher, Carlisle It is now time for all of those police officers involved in the cover up to be put on trial and if prosecuted, imprisoned.

Our criminal justice system should deliver on its duty by ensuring that these two British citizens, alleged to have committed very serious crimes in the UK, are tried and, if appropriate, imprisoned here.

If John Clare, imprisoned in an Epping Forest asylum, had nibbled judiciously from roadside salads, on his crazed and visionary trudge up the Great North Road, he would have had something better than stringy tobacco to digest.

"It was not very clever to go back to Morocco," said Fien Maddens, a prosecutor in Bruges, noting that as dual citizens the men would be tried and, if convicted, imprisoned in Morocco.

"I couldn't believe what I was hearing," she said, adding that her first reaction was: "No, this is wrong". She added: "I will never go willingly back... I'm going to fight this to the very end". Knox said Sollecito was "vulnerable", adding: "I don't know what I would do if they imprisoned him.