Sentence examples for imprisonment in which from inspiring English sources

At Tuesday's opening-night show Mr. Scaggs's pop-funk cry led off a string of songs about psychic imprisonment in which Stephen Sondheim's "Another Hundred People" joined to J. D. Souther's "Prisoner in Disguise" became a miniature suite about loneliness and isolation in the big city.

Parkinson's, like many other disabling illnesses, can be said to be a form of imprisonment, in which one's shaking limbs are the bars through which one gazes, in Oscar Wilde's words, "with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky".

A large literature surveyed in Spelman (1994) examines the validity of self-reports of imprisonment in which infrequent offenders underreport criminal activity, frequent offenders exaggerate criminal involvement, and offenders are less likely to disclose crimes for serious offenses.

What followed is the better-known part of Mandela's story: a harsh and bleak 27 years of imprisonment in which he often had to perform intense manual labor, eat tasteless gruel, and have limited contact with the outside world.

After seven years of brutal imprisonment, in which the Army only allowed the transgender inmate to better align her appearance with her gender identity after lawsuits and a hunger strike, she will finally be free in May.

After seven years of brutal imprisonment, in which the Army only allowed the transgender inmate to better align her appearance with her gender identity after lawsuits and a hunger strike, she will finally be free in May.

Their marriages have become self-imprisonment in which both are suffering but neither has the honesty to confront their own misery and try to improve their life by leaving.

Now imagine that, after six and a half years of this imprisonment -- in which, unlike convicted criminals on the US mainland, you have never been charged or tried, and have not been allowed a single visit from your loved ones -- the highest court in the United States rules, in Boumediene v. Bush, that you have habeas corpus rights; in other words, the right to know why you are being held.

Mr. Nash had been mentally ill for decades, dating back at least to his imprisonment in Connecticut, which should have kept him off death row, Mr. Phalen said.

And don't even get me started on imprisonment, a category in which we qualify as the world's leader with 2.2 million people behind bars, a 500% increase over the last three decades, or the rise of the punitive spirit in this country.

Systems like the box, they say, also offer a glimpse of a future in which imprisonment may be more a function of technology than of bricks and bars.