Sentence examples for prisoners for instance from inspiring English sources

The issue of political prisoners, for instance — a category usually understood here to include both champions of a constitutional monarchy and Islamists who oppose the government on religious grounds — draws a broad band of sympathy.

Eric Slade and Mic Sweeney's 1992 video, "Acting Up for Prisoners," for instance, shows how effective Act Up was in publicizing the shameful health conditions in the California Institute for Women and forcing the state prison system to provide better care for prisoners (many with AIDS).

We also transform objects into monies: prisoners, for instance, turn cigarettes into currency, children trade in food, cards, or playing cards.

Regulations might call for two officers to transport a prisoner, for instance, but there's only one available.

On the first day of "The Spanish Prisoner," for instance, he laid out for the actress Felicity Huffman a Brünnhilde costume, complete with horned helmet.

Some of the video clips shown on television were extremely explicit, showing a naked male prisoner, for instance, being sodomized with what appears to be a police baton.

Several of the translators make judicious use of anachronism to point up the indecorous explicitness of Proust's dissection of sexual desire in general, and the subcultures of male and female homosexuality in particular: Albertine is "lusted-after" in The Prisoner, for instance, and M de Charlus mentions "rent-boys" in Sodom and Gomorrah.

Smith wrote about torture for his newspaper, careful to report only those cases that could be documented: "One prisoner, for instance, said he was shoved into a wooden box and tormented with boiling water; I didn't publish that anecdote in the newspaper because I couldn't cross reference it".

The Georgia prison strike, for instance, was about things prisoners often complain about: They are not paid for their labor.

But the supervisors had never been happy with the poor security provisions for the unarmed monitors and the lax conditions for the prisoners, who were, for instance, allowed to use mobile phones.

Many more countries impose partial voting bans (applying only to prisoners serving long sentences, for instance).