Sentence examples for imprisonment until from inspiring English sources

He now faces imprisonment until 2014.

Before that, life imprisonment meant indefinite imprisonment until the home secretary considered a prisoner was fit for release.

"This is a present for my father," said Jim Winters, 44, a Miami businessman who knew nothing about his father's imprisonment until after his death.

Memories of their few hours together sustain him through his imprisonment, until, after a year of hearing nothing from his family, he receives a letter that will change his life.

We don't learn what Irwin did to deserve imprisonment until more than an hour into the movie; it was a botched mission that led to the deaths of eight of his men, even though he was doing what he thought was right.

Heterosexual anal sex was punishable by a maximum sentence of life imprisonment until 1994 (prosecuting counsel said of the scene where DH Lawrence's gamekeeper buggers Constance Chatterley that it was "not very easy … to know what in fact he is driving at").

In response, the judge read a less-explicit portion of the statute providing that "life imprisonment means until death of the offender," and added: "Parole eligibility or ineligibility is not for your consideration".

Other European countries had legislation limiting imprisonment for debt to one year, but debtors in England were imprisoned until their creditors were satisfied.

Parliament didn't ban the imprisonment of debtors until 1869.

His imprisonment grew harsher, until it was solitary confinement in a room under a staircase, overrun with rats.

But Gramsci's attempt to convince other communists of the revolutionary potential of cultural transformation was restricted by his imprisonment, from 1926 until shortly before his death in 1937, by the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini.