Sentence examples for terms in jail from inspiring English sources

Mr. Omar's accomplices, Salman Saquib, Fahad Nasim and Sheikh Adil, were given life terms in jail.

(3) The South and North will exchange groups of dispersed family members and their relatives around Aug. 15 and resolve as soon as possible humanitarian issues, including the repatriation of Communist prisoners who have completed their terms in jail.

"I do not contend that this was an unnecessary shift, in relation to the most serious cases, but it begs the question whether in more modest or middle-ground terrorist offences there is a real need – as opposed to a political desire – to mark the offenders with far longer terms in jail," he said.

An epicure, he was always ready to pay a personal price for his principles, embarking on numerous hunger strikes; he also served two terms in jail, in 1989 and 1991, for breaking a law against meeting with Yasir Arafat and other officials of the Palestine Liberation Organization, then banned in Israel as a terrorist group.

They were allegedly tortured into giving false confessions and sentenced before a military tribunal, many to lengthy terms in jail.

Both she and a journalist she had spoken to were convicted and sentenced to terms in jail, though the verdicts were later overturned.

Sonny just finished a six month term in jail for robbing a supermarket.

After six months he was caught, and sentenced to a 3-year term in jail.

Anderson served the last 15 days of the last grand jury term in jail for refusing to testify before it.

The pair made an application for house arrest rather than a term in jail, but their appeal was rejected.

His term in jail was a useful credential when he made politics his career, first at local level and then in the national Parliament.