Sentence examples for serving brief from inspiring English sources

Starting in the mid-1980's, they had been abducted from Lebanon, convicted as guerrilla sympathizers, and, after serving brief sentences, held as "bargaining chips" for missing Israeli soldiers.

By 1871, there were 3000 indictments and 600 convictions with most only serving brief sentences while the ringleaders were imprisoned for up to five years in the federal penitentiary in Albany, New York.

They served brief sentences.

Ms. McCready served brief jail sentences in 2007 and 2008 for probation violations.

They were caught a week later and served brief sentences for custodial interference.

Those two men — Clive Goodman, a former royal reporter for The News of the World, a defunct tabloid, and Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator working for the paper — served brief jail terms.

It said the settlements arose from disclosures that emerged from a trial of two private investigators working for the Murdoch-owned News of the World who served brief prison terms after being convicted in 2007 for hacking into cellphone messages.

Dwight and Steven Hammond paid $400,000 in restitution and served brief prison sentences for the crimes (the father three months, the son a year and a day), but after a federal prosecutor appealed, arguing that the sentences had deviated from mandated minimums, an appellate panel vacated the original sentencing decision and ordered a new one, which turned out to be for five years.

Many women prisoners in the United Kingdom serve brief sentences, with more than half being sentenced to custody for six months or less (Ministry of Justice, 2010).

His wife, Miriam Sheinbein, just finished her third year at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is currently serving a brief rotation in San Francisco.

Some of my best friends are Warner Brothers … I have a hunch that his attempt to prevent us from using the title is the brainchild of some ferret-faced shyster, serving a brief apprenticeship in your legal department.