Sentence examples for indefinite prolongation from inspiring English sources

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But the law allows for the indefinite prolongation of sentences — in blocks of five years at a time, each renewed by a judge — for convicts deemed dangerous to public security, Mr. Johnsen said.

Women, however, appear not as subjects of the law but as objects of its exchange; moreover, given the indefinite prolongation of their Oedipal Complex, women will be more likely to be hostile to the edicts of civilization insofar as these infringe upon family life.

In the words of the Victorian author George Trevelyan, the King was determined "never to acknowledge the independence of the Americans, and to punish their contumacy by the indefinite prolongation of a war which promised to be eternal".

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Indefinite run.

Belgium's is indefinite.

Indefinite detention.

"It's exact and indefinite.

"It will cause indefinite divisions".

Their detention is indefinite.

They believed in their "indefinite perfectibility".

They were sent back on indefinite loan.

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