Sentence examples for imprisoned for fighting from inspiring English sources

His lungs are fragile as a result of contracting tuberculosis during the 27 years he spent imprisoned for fighting the white supremacist government of apartheid-era South Africa.

And Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for fighting apartheid, was freed in February 1990, which was before -- not after -- the "white government fell".

You were barely 16 when you married Sadat, who at the time was 29 and a national hero who had been imprisoned for fighting the British in Egypt.

Imprisoned for fighting in the Easter Rising of 1916, Mulcahy later was elected to the British House of Commons in December 1918 as a member of the Sinn Féin ("We Ourselves" or "Ourselves Alone") party, whose members refused to take their seats at Westminster but instead established Dáil Éireann (Irish Assembly) in Dublin.

Imprisoned for fighting Polish authorities in west Ukraine in the 1930s, Bandera briefly joined sides with the German army to fight the Soviets, only to fall out with both half the OUN and with the Nazis who returned him to prison for most of the war.

They were underfed, and immediately imprisoned for fighting.

A picture caption on July 26 with the obituary of Wilton Mkwayi, who was imprisoned with Nelson Mandela for fighting apartheid in South Africa, reversed the identities of two men among the three shown with raised fists after their release in 1989.

Isn't it odd that presidential pardons are given to people who have actually done deeds illegal, hurtful to others, bad on their face, rather than people who have been imprisoned for principled stances they took, for fighting for the rights of others, and especially people who have broken a law but hurt no one but themselves?

Nelson Mandela annotated a copy when he was imprisoned on Robben Island for fighting apartheid in South Africa.

He is currently imprisoned for another crime.

In 1580 he was imprisoned for debt.