Sentence examples for imprisonment himself from inspiring English sources

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He saw the lists of Shiites from Basra who had been executed and recognized names of people he knew, but he said he feared that if he said anything he would risk imprisonment himself.

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One medicine man, Popé of the San Juan pueblo, embittered by imprisonment, believed himself commanded by the tribal ancestor spirits (kachinas) to restore the old customs; on Aug. 10, 1680, he led a full-scale revolt in which almost all the Pueblos participated.

Taking a risk that could result not only in embarrassment but imprisonment, Nathan Fielder handcuffs himself to a metal frame and gives himself 90 seconds to escape before a robotic claw pulls down his pants in front of a crowd of children, with a police officer standing by to arrest him, thus making him him a sex offender for life.

After a lifetime of crime and imprisonment, Eastman redeemed himself on the battlefields of World War I.

During the two years of his imprisonment, he devoted himself to, among other things, the study of the Russian language and of the thought of St . Bonaventure

Someone imprisoned for civil contempt, the court continued, "is said to hold the keys to his cell because he may end the imprisonment and purge himself of the sentence at any time by doing the act he had previously refused to do".

During his second imprisonment, however, Sands found himself in a new situation.

It was as if, at a certain moment (I do not know why or when), he had sentenced himself to imprisonment in some strict regime camp, and was now rigidly enforcing that regime.

But having contrived Richard's abdication and imprisonment, and having had himself crowned as King Henry IV, he moves with cunning vagueness — the vagueness that confers what politicians call "deniability" — to take the essential last step.

As he spoke, he knew that he was dooming himself to continued imprisonment.

He claimed that the real reason for his imprisonment was that he made himself a nuisance by demanding rights for gypsies.He drove a Mercedes car, which upset some Romanians.

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