Sentence examples for prospect of prison from inspiring English sources

The prospect of prison frightened him.

The prospect of prison shook him from his bravado.

"Because of his corrupt conduct, he now faces the prospect of prison time".

Away from the jurors, Johnson appeared less than troubled by the prospect of prison.

With the prospect of prison looming, Jejoen seemed to have recast in his mind his experience in Syria.

Didn't he flee the United States when the plea bargaining seemed to fall apart, raising the prospect of prison time?

With power players facing the very real prospect of long prison sentences, the old fatalism is starting to lift.

Bradley Manning spent yesterday, his birthday, alone in a tiny, bare prison cell, without a pillow or sheets on his bed, in weak health and wracked with anxiety at the prospect of a prison sentence of 52 years.

However, the former Luton South MP escaped a guilty verdict and the prospect of a prison sentence because she was deemed unfit to stand trial for mental health reasons.

Among them are promises that the forthcoming bill will mean "rogue employers" will feel the "full force of government machinery" and the headline-grabbing threat that undocumented workers "will face the prospect of a prison term".

If one constructs on a case by case basis an offense based on an interpretation of a broad anti-fraud rule, to prosecute that offense criminally with the prospect of significant prison sentences means that there must be notice to the defendants and clarity with respect to the offense.