Sentence examples for right to imprison from inspiring English sources

The House no longer retains it right to imprison.

Lincoln's order gave his commanders the right to imprison suspected saboteurs indefinitely, without so much as an indictment.

Pakistan can expel Mr. Davis, the administration says, but it has no right to imprison him and move forward with a murder case.

The Prevention of Terror Act gives a government panel the right to imprison terror suspects for two years, with multiple extensions, or restrict their movements for five years.

However I state it, the fact remains that I have assumed the right to imprison others in what I seem to see, feel, think, imagine, and know.

Mexico's ambassador to Washington, Arturo Sarukhan, sent a letter to Ms. Ros-Lehtinen this week arguing that Mexico had a right to imprison Mr. Hammar for carrying a shotgun "restricted for the exclusive use of the Mexican armed forces".

If the right is willing to imprison people indefinitely and send young people off to die in Iraq in the name of security, then why is it unthinkable to standardize driver's licenses into a national ID?

- (IT) Quite apart from the approval or rejection of amendments and the removal or amendment of paragraphs, we were disgusted to find in an annual report of the European Parliament on such a sensitive and urgent matter as human rights, the recommendation "not to imprison child abusers, except as a last resort", and a call for the Member States to "lower the age-of-consent for homosexual relations".

More specifically, the question is whether the president has the right as commander in chief to imprison suspected terrorists without a hearing; hold them incommunicado indefinitely and without the protections guaranteed by the Geneva Conventions; and bar them from seeking redress in the federal courts.

As friends of Angola, we call upon the Angolan government to restore their constitutional rights to the imprisoned political activists, to overturn the politically motivated sentencing of Rafael Marques, and to allow an independent inquiry into the events at Mount Sumi.

The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".