Sentence examples for ringleaders from inspiring English sources

Early in 2006, Chan and Sukumaran – as the convicted ringleaders – were sentenced to death.

The Guardian understands the ISC report details how MI5 officers monitored four meetings in early 2004 between Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer - the ringleaders of the 7/7 attacks - and Omar Khyam, the ringleader of a plot to blow up shopping centres and nightclubs who was jailed for life in 2007.

Related: AFP officer asked to be taken off Bali Nine case because of death penalty risk The AFP strenuously defended its decision to share information with Indonesia on Australian Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, who were executed for drug offences in April.

Cloughley was one of the ringleaders of the watershed 1971 "work-in" of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, when shop steward Jimmy Reid took on the Tory government and forced a U-turn from prime minister Edward Heath, who had said he was willing to let 6,000 workers lose their jobs rather than give a loan to a "lame duck" industry.

Its officers take pains to sort the ringleaders from the rest.

He was charged with endangering national security and prevented from seeing his lawyer during the first 40 days of his interrogation.Next month will be the anniversary of last summer's pro-democracy student protests which led to days of street violence in Tehran, and the imprisonment of student ringleaders.

After a lengthy indictment was read out, repentant ringleaders were shown making their confessions.A convoluted indictment described the unravelling of a project that had aimed to overthrow the state by means of a carefully planned effort to cast doubt on the presidential election.

The government quelled it in the usual manner, rounding up the ringleaders and promising the others more money.

The authorities in Hong Kong are reined in by a legal system bequeathed by the British; they cannot, as officials commonly do in mainland China, handle unrest with a combination of astute bargaining, thuggish violence, ruthless treatment of ringleaders and tight controls over media and the internet.

The rebels' ringleaders sheathed their weapons.In truth, they had little choice.

Under a scheme whereby those who confess are released, another 30,000 are soon to be set free.The scheme, which does not apply to the ringleaders of the genocide, is intended to ease overcrowding and reveal the truth about the events of 1994.