Sentence examples for imprisoned a few from inspiring English sources

Many were captured and imprisoned, a few were murdered.

A few very small fish have been imprisoned; a few others have been fined or reduced in rank; in most cases the authorities have either failed to investigate or failed to prosecute.

His idea was to imprison a few select women in a lab, where they would be artificially inseminated to propagate the species.

If the Justice Department can simply imprison a few journalists like James Risen, perhaps even the public will call for the passage of a new media shield law one void of dangerous terms like "compelled disclosure," "limitations on content," and "allegedly unlawful".

Rather, he is dreaming of a perpetual gig economy for all by empowering his millionaire labour minister to cut protections for workers and promoting legislation that will move France into something like a permanent state of emergency, in which the freedoms Macron is purporting to protect will be gravely threatened, all in the name of imprisoning a few Muslims.

Some of the defendants in the first round of trials were executed, some imprisoned, and a few were acquitted.

Iranian activists who challenge the regime are imprisoned for a few years; Burmese activists who organize relief supplies for cyclone victims are locked away for two decades.

His commissary work continued, and the litigation came to a head; in September 1592 he was imprisoned for a few days in Castro del Río.

But a contract was a contract, and Jean was virtually imprisoned for a few years in Hollywood while her husband became a star and Hughes gave her rubbish to do.

Although he was caught and imprisoned for a few days after a first attempt to cross, he bided his time working as a day laborer for several weeks in North Korea.

Arrested during a road check and imprisoned for a few days on suspicion of being a "Mexican terrorist," he was neither tortured nor killed, as he'd expected, but "in the small hours I could hear them torturing others; I couldn't sleep and there was nothing to read except a magazine in English that someone had left behind.