Sentence examples for we were sentenced from inspiring English sources

When we were sentenced to seven years in the first trial.

"We knew we were sentenced to death and we really wanted to choose our way of dying," Mr. Rotem said quietly.

"In this society that claims to be harmonious, we have become 'citizens of the three have-nots waiting to die': we have no regular jobs, no pensions, and no health insurance; if we get sick, we can only wait to die, and all this just because 20 years ago we were sentenced for political reasons," the letter says.

And for the most part, this liberation did not stop when we were sentenced to prison," wrote Sharansky.

"After we were sentenced, he said we had two options: either appeal or ask for a pardon.

There's no other crime that they'd make you do inside," he pointed out, adding that he believes these double standards are deeply engrained in societal attitudes towards graffiti: "For example, around the time we were sentenced, the Tate Modern flew in writers from around the world for a graffiti exhibition.

We were sentencing a shell of a man.

"Telling someone that college is not right for him seems harsh and classist, vaguely Dickensian," Professor X writes, "as though we were sentencing him to a life in the coal mines".

"As my friend put it, it was like we were sentencing a man to death, forcing his wife to marry someone else, and participating in the wedding party all at the same time.

The service has been losing money for several years (which forced us to gradually reduce our staff), and the amounts to which we are sentenced to pay today no longer allow us to meet our obligations.

And I was told: "We are sentencing to custody.