Synonym: captivity, immurement, incarceration, internment. Similar words: prison, prisoner, abandonment, environment, environmental, disillusionment, reapportionment, improvement. Meaning: [ɪm'prɪznmənt] n. 1. putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment 2. the state of being imprisoned 3. the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison).
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151. Instead, he complained, he had been brought to court, fined, whipped and sentenced to two months imprisonment.
152. Unfortunately his lawyer could find no statute or point of law preventing his client's imprisonment.
153. In each case the appellant has been found guilty of contempt of court and has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment.
154. She wouldn't waste her enforced imprisonment in Castle Perilous, she would make a start on her lines!
155. Capital prosecutions are hideously expensive; life imprisonment is cheaper and just as effective.
156. If anyone prevents you from doing so, you can sue for false imprisonment.
157. On summary conviction, the statutory maximum penalty is six months imprisonment, with a fine of up to £1000.
158. However, I state again that enforcement procedures offer plenty of opportunities for some one to pay their dues and so avoid imprisonment.
159. Once again, this points to excessive use of imprisonment, at least on the part of the Crown Court.
160. Lombardy was stopped and arrested on suspicion of rape by force; rape with a foreign object and false imprisonment.
161. Astiz has already been sentenced, in absentia,[www.Sentencedict.com] to life imprisonment by a Paris court.
162. In the armed services homosexuality is still punishable by imprisonment.
163. On imprisonment and so-called amnesties, it is illegal and irresponsible to withhold payment of the community charge.
164. Act 1974 is liable to unlimited fines and/or up to two years imprisonment after conviction by a Crown Court.
165. She heard mention of six months' imprisonment, and was terrified that she'd be locked up for doing nothing.
166. Johnson was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for causing a riot.
167. Spanswick was sentenced to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years with a supervision order attached.
168. Imprisonment and becoming refugees had affected us badly and we needed the support we were given.
169. Many women believe that the punishment for rape should be life imprisonment.
170. Remarkably, he was able to evade long term imprisonment, and made his way to the West.
171. I mentioned the sentence of life imprisonment and the unlimited fines that are available for crimes involving knives.
172. But this is a case where long imprisonment is needed not just as a punishment, but to protect society.
173. Its cadres were decimated, whether through discouragement, capitulation, imprisonment, or outright murder.
174. The years of imprisonment; the relentless pursuit by the police official, Javert.
175. Prior to his imprisonment, his burgling and dealing activities financed their heroin use.
176. Olivier Nwaha Binya'a appears to be held in indefinite administrative detention without any opportunity to challenge his imprisonment.
177. He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by Mr Justice Jowitt.
178. The offender was on licence at the time of the offence from a sentence of 15 years' imprisonment imposed in 1981.
179. All are defined as crimes against humanity and carry a penalty of life imprisonment.
180. New closed prisons were built for convicted offenders serving long fixed sentences or life imprisonment for the most serious crimes.
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