Sentence examples for indicted for contempt from inspiring English sources

Referred to as the Hollywood Ten, they were indicted for contempt of Congress and sentenced to brief imprisonment.

According to the tribunal's rules, a person charged or indicted for contempt of court can be imprisoned up to seven years or fined up to $90,000.

He walked it like he sang it; he was once indicted for contempt by the same government he so frequently called out in his music (the charges were later overturned).

After he and the others were indicted for contempt of Congress, tried, convicted and sentenced to prison, Dalton Trumbo spent 10 months in a federal prison in Kentucky.

In 1957 he was indicted for contempt of Congress, and although his 1961 conviction on that charge was overturned, he was prepared to go to jail for what he believed in.

A government raid on a private media company earlier this month and Moscow's recent welcome for Yugoslavia's defense minister, who has been indicted for war crimes, suggest a contempt for democratic values that Mr. Clinton and his aides must consider as they plan for the Moscow summit meeting.

They are almost never indicted for it.

Scaffa later indicted for compounding a felony.

The brothers were indicted for grand theft.

Cohen was freed & Sorro indicted for perjury.

He has not been indicted for anything.