Sentence examples for penal in from inspiring English sources

[#unhandled_cartoon] The train out to Oak Park was stuffy, grim, almost penal in its deprivation.

'IN THE PENAL COLONY' In more modest precincts American Opera Projects offered a striking performance of this chamber opera by Mr. Glass, based on Kafka's short story of the same name, at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights in October.

Even furtum itself was not compensatory but penal in nature.

In his first year in a penal colony in Siberia, the former oil tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky was stabbed in the face with a shank, or homemade knife.

Alisher Usmanov Aged 54, he grew up in Uzbekistan, spending six years in a penal colony in the Eighties for fraud and embezzlement, charges that were eventually overturned.

Today's trial will take place in the Vatican courtroom, employing a 19th-century penal code in place in Italy when the Vatican state came into being.

1983 The largest mass prison break in British penal history, in which 38 IRA inmates escaped.

His first theater job was a Philip Glass opera adaptation of Kafka's short story In the Penal Colony in which he didn't sing or speak, just moved.

Noted Russian fishermen include the playwright Anton Chekhov and the young Lenin, who fished while in a penal colony in Siberia.

After 15 months behind bars, seven of them in this penal colony in Mordovia, Nadya seemed to be descending into depression.

As in any penal system in the world, there are reports of mistreatment, but it is not frequent and has affected only a small percentage of the population.