Sentence examples for was jailing from inspiring English sources

The government was jailing opposition leaders in advance of a planned protest march, and Smolansky had calculated, probably rightly, that he might be next.

The banks poured money into South Africa, he said, "when they knew the government was jailing, torturing, relocating and oppressing people".

I was lucky to get a visa to travel to Turkmenistan in the middle of last year, at a time when Turkmenbashi was still alive, and many of his people cringed at his name, he was jailing dissenters, and his roads were mostly closed to people like me.

Also gone is former Ferguson Municipal Court Judge Ronald Brockmeyer, who, it turned out, owed tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes even as he was jailing people who couldn't afford Ferguson's stiff fines.

He was jailed.

Dr. King was jailed.

Sickles was jailed only briefly.

Schaefer was jailed for life.

Shin refused and was jailed.

He was jailed at Nuremberg.

Mr. Galindo was jailed.