Sentence examples for may be imprisoned from inspiring English sources

In addition, you may be imprisoned for not more than 12 months, as provided for by 43 U.S.C. 1733(a).

Fast Company may be imprisoned by a rhetorical set that cannot be used without inviting derision -- spare change agents, anyone?

It is conceded that Congress has the power to provide that persons convicted of crimes against the United States in one State may be imprisoned in another.

And if he fails to do so — not an unlikely prospect for some teenagers, especially those without involved parents — he may be imprisoned for more than one year.

Having been convicted as a juvenile, Ethan's punishment for violating the terms of his parole can only be a relatively mild one: he may be imprisoned in a juvenile facility until his nineteenth birthday, in April.

If it is determined that he is working for one of the many gangs that snare runaways to be sold as prostitutes, either at home or in Dubai for onward sale in the Arab world, he may be imprisoned.

Written as dialogue only, without characters or scene descriptions, it has been given theatrical shape by Mr. Hill, who imagines it as a meditation on the mortality of Frank (Bill Weeden), a writer who may or may not be imprisoned and may or may not be about to die.

There was no mention in the agreement of former South Korean soldiers who may still be imprisoned in the North.

The ruling stated that "a defendant may not be imprisoned solely due to poverty" and said judges should take into consideration nonfinancial alternatives to bail.

In many jurisdictions, moreover, a judgment debtor may still be imprisoned for failure to pay alimony or support ordered by the court, for example, or for failure to satisfy judgment for damages.

Guantanamo Bay detainees who are acquitted by civil or military courts may still be imprisoned indefinitely if the government determines that they pose a national security threat, the Defense Department's chief lawyer said yesterday.