Sentence examples for imposing prison from inspiring English sources

Most are dealt with by lay magistrates in local courts, capable of imposing prison sentences of up to two years, or involve guilty pleas.

Under President Xi Jinping, police and prosecutors have increasingly moved towards imposing prison sentences, and public pressure has not provided any help whatsoever to the accused.

Lawmakers also agreed to scale back a provision imposing prison terms of up to 20 years for senior corporate executives who knowingly or willfully publish misleading financial statements.

A24 News Groups Assail Secrecy Bill Chief executives of several big news organizations wrote to President Clinton urging him to veto legislation that would increase government secrecy by imposing prison sentences on officials convicted of disclosing classified information.

The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based free-speech lobby, accuses the government of conducting a "systematic effort to control all forms of communications" after it passed laws imposing prison sentences of up to 15 years on anyone caught bypassing online censors.

The Scottish courts have a presumption against imposing prison sentences of three months or less unless it can be shown that no other alternative is appropriate.

The original bill, which produced much alarm and was altered, would have imposed prison sentences.

The judge, Earl H. Carroll, declined to impose prison terms Tuesday on the five others convicted.

Some European countries, like Germany, France and Austria, he argues, have laws that impose prison terms for antics offensive to believers.

This would stop courts from being able to use the law to impose prison terms of up to three years.

Judge Hoffman imposed prison sentences on the five, as well as on Mr. Kunstler, whom he held in contempt.