Sentence examples for prolonged imprisonment from inspiring English sources

Crimes in French law are the most serious offenses, punishable by death or prolonged imprisonment.

The play features a 16-year entr'acte, either a resurrection or a sadistically prolonged imprisonment, inexplicably sudden emotional shifts and, of course, the most famous stage direction in dramatic history: "Exit, pursued by a bear".

Dozens of detainees held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICEE) claim they were subjected to sleep deprivation, solitary confinement and other forms of retaliation after they went on hunger strike last month to protest the rejection of their asylum claims and their prolonged imprisonment.

Federal investigators dressed in white jumpsuits, to avoid contaminating evidence, have been coming through the house and yard, recovering the first clues to how the women were treated over their prolonged imprisonment.

At a news conference later Sunday in New York, Ms. Shourd said that she and her two companions, who are still being held in Iran, "in no way intended any harm to the Iranian government or its people and believe a huge misunderstanding led to our detention and prolonged imprisonment".

Mr. Thien, a dissident writer who has been called the Solzhenitsyn of Vietnam for the sheaves of poems he wrote opposing the Communist government there — and for the prolonged imprisonment, including torture and solitary confinement, that his efforts earned him — died on Tuesday in Santa Ana, Calif.

St. Gregory the Illuminator was the early Christian missionary who endured prolonged brutal imprisonment and then emerged sufficiently unshaken to convert the Armenian king in A.D. 301; the king proclaimed Christianity the state religion.

Though he was ultimately acquitted by a jury of the most serious charges against him, the Bush administration has prolonged his imprisonment indefinitely.

This is a ploy to bring further charges against my father and prolong his imprisonment -and our suffering--as much as possible.

Bahari was detained and tortured for months, and once Jon Stewart caught wind of all this, along with his tangential role in prolonging Bahari's imprisonment, he took time off from The Daily Show to direct Rosewater.

Those who have survived its horrors firsthand will have to bear the trauma of personal losses that include the deaths of loved ones and physical injuries; the pain and humiliation of torture, including sex slavery and gang rape; the loss of homes and property; the effects of prolonged shock and fear caused by incessant aerial bombardment; starvation; imprisonment; flight and exile; and so on.