Sentence examples for imprisonment by a from inspiring English sources

Meiwes was sentenced to life imprisonment by a German court in 2006.

In 1948 he was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by a Yugoslavian court and was turned over to authorities in the Soviet Union, where he died in prison.

Although that charge was dismissed, he was found  guilty of sedition and conspiracy, and sentenced to life imprisonment by a lower court in Chhattisgarh in 2010.

Abu Nidal was sentenced to death in absentia by the Palestine Liberation Organization and to life imprisonment by a court in Rome.

Judge Gilmar Mendes wrote that Lula's appointment to cabinet was clearly designed to allow him to avoid possible imprisonment by a lower court judge.

Found not guilty by the Nürnberg tribunal of conspiracy to prepare aggressive war, he was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment by a German court as a major Nazi, but in 1949, on his appeal, he was released and fined.

Mr Irving, who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment by an Austrian judge in 2006 for remarks he made in 1989 claiming there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz (views he has now revised), had booked a two-week stay last July at Mrs Allen's bed and breakfast, Melbury, so he could visit the nearby National Archives in Kew, used by thousands of academics every year to study government documents.

In 1985, he was tried in R. v. Zundel and convicted under a "false news" law and sentenced to 15 months imprisonment by an Ontario court for "disseminating and publishing material denying the Holocaust".

It did so by granting them one of the oldest rights in the book, a writ of habeas corpus, which is a way of challenging imprisonment by requiring an explanation of why someone is being held.

But if an ISIS fighter were sent to Guantanamo, he would almost certainly challenge his imprisonment by filing a habeas petition and raising the murky legal basis of the entire military campaign against ISIS.

Britain has an overcrowded prison population of 84,431, costing the state £45,000 a year per inmate, so recouping that astronomical cost of imprisonment by capitalising on a captive labour force is undoubtedly an attractive proposition.