Sentences with phrase «bear than a prison»

Some said indefinite detention is harder to bear than a prison term.

Not exact matches

As the wettest storm on record in US history bore down in the last days of August — dropping five feet of rain in some areas — completely inundating Houston, killing more than 70 people, and damaging almost 200,000 homes, at least five prisons on the east coast of Texas were evacuated.

And our news pages have more than borne out our warnings, filled as they are with stories about elected officials sent to prison for funneling these public dollars to non-profit groups that they themselves control.

In the end, Disobedience is less about the subjugation of the self to the group than the courage to embrace uncertainty if one were to break out of the prison of a world one has been born into.

Phillips replaces this hilarious shock value with a much more traditional and quite frankly, boring, storyline that caters more to the likes of one Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong) after he escapes prison and is being tracked down by some very mean gangsters indeed (led by none other than John Goodman) when he steals $ 21 million in gold bricks.

Black, 63, a Canadian - born member of the British House of Lords renowned for his flamboyant way with words, had faced up to slightly more than 8 years in prison under sentencing guidelines determined earlier Monday by U.S. District Judge Amy J. St. Eve.

Barnes served more than 19 years in prison before DNA technology could be brought to bear on his case.