Sentence examples for which imprisoned from inspiring English sources

The Iron Curtain era was like a massive "Truman Show" in which imprisoned citizens were forced to celebrate their collective incarceration, deprived of the basic human right to be a part of the wider world.

Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian philosopher, described his Indian sojourn this way, and even as he agreed to an interview this month on condition that he not be asked to talk about his home country, which imprisoned him last year, it kept creeping into the conversation, quite uninvited, like a gnome.

The impeachment vote in the lower house on April 17 saw congress members line up one by one to vote "yes" while shouting of their love for their country or support for its former military dictatorship — which imprisoned and tortured Rousseff — in an atmosphere resembling that of a soccer match.

The bear sees only the past, which imprisons the present in endless cycles of boom and bust and boom again.

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison".

Some of the most dynamic economies in the world are in places like China or Vietnam, which imprison protesters and where leaders are chosen by a clique.

Number one on the list is Uzbekistan, a vicious dictatorship which imprisons political opponents and has been the site of mass killings.

So does its consequence: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison".

The nuns no doubt agree with Thoreau's famous saying: "Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison".

The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.

But others have grown frustrated, and are finding ways of bending the rules.For the past century the standard-bearer of the prohibition movement has been America, which imprisons more people for drug offences than any other country.