Sentence examples for imprisoned itself from inspiring English sources

When Rome's inquisitors condemned the seventeenth-century astronomer to house arrest, declaring him a heretic for his support of heliocentrism, the Church imprisoned itself in the preference of abstract ideology over testable experience — of what could be read in Scripture over what could be glimpsed through a telescope.

When Rome's inquisitors condemned the seventeenth-century astronomer to house arrest, declaring him a heretic for his support of heliocentrism, the Church imprisoned itself in the preference of abstract ideology over testable experience of what could be read in Scripture over what could be glimpsed through a telescope.

And Israel is building this wall it's imprisoning itself also, not just the Palestinians, and it comes from a mentality of not just domination but you're not preparing for peace you're preparing for war.

But in a scathing commentary in Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's biggest-selling newspaper, respected defence analyst Alex Fishman recently wrote: "We have become a nation that imprisons itself behind fences, which huddles terrified behind defensive shields".

Iran's government seems to have coped with this conundrum in the manner of deceivers throughout history and literature: it blustered, obfuscated, hinted, delayed, negotiated for some way out, but ultimately found itself imprisoned by its own deceit.

In one of the only three Platonic Dialogues known to the Middle Ages, the Phaedo, Socrates taught (while himself in prison awaiting execution) that the soul or spirit or mind is itself only imprisoned by the body and its lusts.

Banned from working in her field, First was retraining as a librarian when she was arrested, the police accosting her in the library itself, and imprisoned in solitary detention for 117 days.

The one imprisoned thus becomes both the jailed and the jail itself.

The DPP is still struggling to distance itself from its imprisoned former president, Chen Shui-bian, who last year received a life sentence (since reduced to 20 years) for corruption.

This time, as a journalist covering the event, I was arrested on the high seas, briefly imprisoned and interrogated on Mururoa itself while the tests continued.

"The fact that a filmmaker has been imprisoned," Mr. Kiarostami said, "is in itself intolerable".