Sentence examples for it imprisoned from inspiring English sources

But the junta that reigned over Argentina from 1976 to 1983 stands out for its treatment of the pregnant women it imprisoned and disappeared.

The Wilson administration closed down dissent, and with the passage of the Espionage Act in 1917 it imprisoned left-wing opponents of the war.

Happily exhausted, in a way, because I'd managed not to think all day, kidding myself that manual labour frees the mind, but in the end it imprisoned mine.

Nevertheless, Ackerley soon decided that he had no real talent for writing, and in 1928 he took a job — or, as he later put it, "imprisoned" himself — at the BBC.

A Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State, run by militia and army officers, was set up to try anti-Fascist "subversives"; it imprisoned or sent to exile on remote islands thousands of political opponents, including the Communist leader Antonio Gramsci, and it imposed 31 death penalties.

The castle was in active use in the 17th century when it imprisoned Corfitz Ulfeldt (Denmark's Benedict Arnold), and enough of it is still standing so that visitors get a good sense of what it was like to live there, either freely or in a cell, on a cliff over the Baltic.

It imprisons a person inside his own, immobile body.

This is scarcely surprising, because it imprisons and frequently murders local and foreign journalists who report on its activities.

It imprisons you, it turns you into a bundle of jelly, it's going to kill you sooner or later, and in a very unpleasant way, because it almost certainly strangulates you or chokes you.

"[It] is a reminder of how destructive the Saudi regime's injustice is not just on the individuals it imprisons but on their loved ones.

But unlike the unnamed protagonist of Everyman, death does not free Messner: it imprisons him in an 'endless nothing', where memory cogitates 'for eons on itself'.