imprisonment
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Releasing Mr. Lai wouldn’t require China to admit that his imprisonment was wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The state imprisonment rate in 2019 was the lowest it had been since 1988, and it had shrunk by 20% since 2007.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Under the current law, deliberately starting forest fires is punishable by up to 30 years in prison, or life imprisonment in certain cases.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
He was later awarded nearly $1 million from the Victim Compensation Board of California for his wrongful imprisonment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Then he had gone meekly to his imprisonment, casting a last long, doting look upon her.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
After this, there will be a lot of going back and forth across the Channel; crimes of the aristocracy; Darnay’s own Big Secret revealed; more trials, more imprisonments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
He reunited with his wife in the final months of his life, as he suffered from ill-health caused by his imprisonments.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024
“It’s disturbing, it’s terrifying, and it’s a major violation of protected speech,” Freedom House’s Nate Schenkkan said of the recent imprisonments of Western-based Saudis.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
Even a recent number of arrests and imprisonments for defaming the president do not appear to have dented Mr. Hichilema’s popularity.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
Both of us were spared, in body at least, by the stone walls of our different imprisonments, and altered in spirit, in ways we’re struggling to understand.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
