Sentence examples for instance of jail from inspiring English sources

Today's ruling is not the first instance of jail time given to a person for Facebook comments, likes or even just receiving a message.

The former owner of a peanut company in Georgia was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Monday for his role in a salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds, a rare instance of jail time in a food contamination case.

For instance, instead of jailing everyone involved in so-called quality-of-life violations, like carrying open liquor containers or being too noisy, the Newark police now issue tickets, saving hundreds of hours of time arresting people with clean records who they say are unlikely to commit serious crimes.

And then there's the troubling fact that putting all these corrupt officials on an island somewhere would make it even harder to check-up on them, and potentially catch instances of luxury jail cells.

For instance, national surveys of jails indicate rates of SUDs of 70% and symptoms of mental illness of almost 65% (Karberg and James, 2005; James and Glaze, 2006).

For foreign sales representatives, for instance, it has been the perfect get-out-of-jail card when they don't reach their quotas.

Democratic candidates are competing to see who can express more outrage -- John Kerry, for instance, calls the changes a " 'get out of jail free' card" for polluters.

In Cocktailopoly, for instance, players get sent to Hangover instead of Jail.

Even in the rare instance of a politician ending up in jail, he or she will usually be quietly pardoned by the government, which has the power to overrule judges.

Speaking of the new DMHEF form, for instance, Mr Fearnley says: "We are not saying that this should be a Get Out of Jail Card".

Foreign pressure kept him out of jail.