Sentence examples for imprisoned on a from inspiring English sources

The dissident, Emadeddin Baghi, was imprisoned on a previously suspended one-year term on charges of acting against state security.

Lumumba was imprisoned on a charge of inciting to riot.

Anwar was sacked and imprisoned on a sodomy conviction in 1998.

Several months later, the former agent was arrested and imprisoned on a separate theft charge.

Will legislatures deem data too valuable to be forever imprisoned on a hard drive?

When they eventually emerge, they are imprisoned on a charge that carries the death penalty.

Against this backdrop, the "failed ­writer" Harold Winslow narrates the ­story of his life while imprisoned on an airship supposedly powered by a perpetual motion machine.

We concluded that they had either lost the trail or were imprisoned on an island of open water, probably the latter.

Saddam Hussein and his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed, known as Chemical Ali, were imprisoned on an island in an artificial lake in the center of the base, separated by a causeway with a drawbridge.

Against this backdrop, a "failed writer" narrates the story of his life while imprisoned on an airship and accompanied by the cryogenically frozen corpse of a once-powerful inventor, Prospero, and the disembodied voice of Prospero's daughter.

In MacNeal's version, our protagonist, Maggie Hope — and now, Camilla Oddell and several others — are imprisoned on an island, much like the guests invited to an island holiday in Christie's novel.