Sentence examples for may be prisoners from inspiring English sources

Mr. and Mrs. Farnsworth may be prisoners of their class and its superficial trappings.

In a post at the Oxford University Press blog, Daniel Callahan wonders about the ways in which we may be prisoners of "choice," and a post at Oxford University's Practical Ethics blog attempts to distinguish between philosophy as a "subject" and as a "way".

The organization called for a letter-writing campaign on behalf of the convicted health workers, stating its belief "that the charges were politically motivated, that the proceedings did not meet international fair trial standards and that [the health workers] may be prisoners of conscience".

"They may well actually be prisoners who actively take part in a regime, so they they may be perfectly friendly {to} the staff.

One of Dick Cheney's daughters is a lesbian; and among the Democratic presidential hopefuls, Dick Gephardt, too, has an openly gay daughter.The problem for the Democrats is that they may appear to be prisoners of gay-rights pressure groups.

A prisoner may be a prisoner, but as Dostoevsky so pointedly wrote in Notes from a Dead House, "no brands, no fetters will make him forget that he is a man".

The I.O.C. is not about to appoint delegates to watch over the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, where many workers may be political prisoners.

For a start, in adopting the report by Mr Agramunt and Mr Grech, the PACE resolution referred to the "systemic detention of people who may be considered prisoners of conscience".

Mr Saleh may be a prisoner of Ansar Allah.

Now a report in the latest EMBO Journal shows how the flu virus slips the confines of its cell--and how, by knocking out parts of two key viral genes, it may be held prisoner.

Eddie may be a prisoner, but he's also a bookie, and he was doing what bookies everywhere were doing in the lead-up to the biggest betting event of the year: worrying about the betting line.