Sentence examples for sentences behind from inspiring English sources

He was also jailed for two months, and both men must serve half their sentences behind bars.

Among the opposition figures with lengthy prison sentences behind them who attended the funeral was the student activist Bahareh Hedayat.

And this was all long before Rick Perry, the Texas governor, struggled to form simple sentences behind the Republican debate lectern.

He leaves his exquisite sentences behind him like a snail leaves its glistening thread; when you look for the man, he is no longer there.

As a result, release rates of those prisoners eligible for parole have declined to 31.2percentt in 1995 from 37percentt in 1990, and inmates therefore are spending more of their sentences behind bars, Mr. Beck said.

In the 80s and 90s, hundreds of thousands of people were handed decades-long or even life sentences behind bars for nonviolent drug offenses – but the laws have changed.

Ahmed, 51, will serve half the sentence behind bars and the rest on licence.

The athlete was freed two weeks ago in line with sentencing guidelines that say non-dangerous prisoners should spend only a sixth of a custodial sentence behind bars.

Pistorius' defence lawyer Barry Roux said he expected the jailed athlete to serve only 10 months of the five-year sentence behind bars, and the remainder under house arrest.

After a later D.U.I. arrest, she spent eighty-two minutes of a four-day sentence behind bars, before being released, owing to jail overcrowding.

Lindsay is currently on probation for driving under the influence (DUI) in 2007 after spending 14 days of a 90-day jail sentence behind bars in July 2010.