Sentence examples for to avoid imprisonment from inspiring English sources

To avoid imprisonment, he accepted chemical castration.

Wikileaks legal advisers are assisting Snowden in his effort to avoid imprisonment, and a member of the organization reportedly traveled with Snowden from Hong Kong to Moscow.

The Lovings, arrested and tried for their marriage, were forced, in a plea bargain that allowed them to avoid imprisonment, to leave Virginia.

He adds that in a poverty-stricken community such as Katine, justice often takes second place when families have the chance to receive considerable sums of money from suspects willing to pay to avoid imprisonment or worse.

It is an inescapable fact that Mr. Zimmerman created the circumstances in which he felt his life was in danger, and then was able to use Florida's self-defense law to avoid imprisonment for shooting and killing the person he feared.

Rousseau senior had an equally glorious image of his own importance; after marrying above his modest station as a watchmaker, he got into trouble with the civil authorities by brandishing the sword that his upper-class pretentions prompted him to wear, and he had to leave Geneva to avoid imprisonment.

On the issue of transitional justice, however, FARC fighters could at least avoid imprisonment.

My goal was to avoid sentimentalising imprisonment, while exploring the ways some people do manage to rise above it.

Patients or prisoners [may] "acquiesce rather than consent", believing it is the only way to avoid indefinite imprisonment.

Judge Gilmar Mendes wrote that Lula's appointment to cabinet was clearly designed to allow him to avoid possible imprisonment by a lower court judge.

"I offer you a simple, yet honorable alternative to a life on the run from Coalition Forces in order to avoid capture, imprisonment and loss of honor and dignity befitting a General Officer," he wrote.