Sentences with phrase «become imprisoned»

To suggest that anyone chose to become imprisoned is just a speciesist form of victim - blaming.

Cameron, he suggests, had a good first year before becoming imprisoned by his right wing, losing control of events and party management.

To me, they indicate that Boden and Fleck are filmmakers who insist on hewing their own path, without chasing last year's audience or becoming imprisoned by subject matter and style.

But soon the clown haunts him — and he becomes imprisoned behind the makeup and smiles.

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But the investigators allege that the investigation was actually an intimidation tactic against Shi launched for her suspected role as a whisteblower who spilled the beans about Glaxo's marketing tactics in China, and that they eventually became scapegoats who were arrested and imprisoned for their investigation of Shi.

We can be sure of one thing: if we allow them to imprison our money in their cashless prisons, they will grind it into oblivion by fees and fraud, and our financial slavery will become inescapable.

Any Christians caught publicly practicing their faith can be sent to hard labour camp, but they can also be sentenced if a family member was caught practicing their faith or even if they become Christian and move to China, they can still be sent back and imprisoned, according to the report.

This man» a former official of the Second Republic (the previous civilian government, overthrown by the military in 1983) who was once imprisoned by the current regime» told me that in many places in the north, where he often tries cases, Nigerian civil law has become a dead letter: judges regularly turn cases over to the sharia courts even if only one party to the case is a Muslim.

For the moment, however, Paul became a persecutor, arresting Christians in Jerusalem and imprisoning them (8:3).

This: that time is the category of the historical; that because the redemptive power of God has become time, faith - engendering witness can not be borne to that power save in a kind of preaching which is a rhetorical address to men in their time - determined and time - imprisoned existence.

Martin Niemöller, German U-boat captain in World War 1, and later a fearless critic of the Nazi regime who was imprisoned from 1937 - 1945, then became president of the Evangelical Church of Hessen - Nassau in Germany.

All three strategies have seen success, from the use of media to win a government mandate to call Christians «Masihi» (Jesus is the Messiah) as opposed to «Isai» (which connotes disbelief in the resurrection) in Pakistan to Laotian pastor Khamphone Pounthapanya, who was imprisoned for his faith before becoming the general secretary of the Lao Evangelical Church and advocating for protection of Christians.

is a mere logicker, fastening on a word as the sole expression and exact equivalent of truth, to go on spinning deductions out of the form of the word (which yet having nothing to do with the idea), then he becomes a one - word professor, quarreling, as for truth itself, with all who chance to go out of his word; and, since words are given not to imprison souls but to express them, the variations continually indulged in by others are sure to render him as miserable in his anxieties, as he is meager in his contents, and busy in his quarrels.

One of its most famous representatives was a Baptist, John Bunyan (1628 - 1688), whose The Pilgrim's Progress, begun while he was imprisoned for preaching in violation of the law, became one of the classics of the Christian life as held by thousands of Protestants.

The concern of the bishop for the impoverished and the imprisoned is likewise attested by Bishop Dionysius of Corinth with special reference to Soter, who became bishop in Rome (166 - 74) not long after the time of Justin's foregoing delineation:

Turkey has become highly - aggressive militarily towards EU members Greece and Cyprus, adopted extremist religious and nationalist ideology, abandoned a separation of church and state, imprisoned EU citizens, and threatened EU businesses operating within Turkey with terrorism charges or accused them of having links to terrorism.

In 1996, Charlene Brundidge became the first woman in the state to be granted clemency after being convicted of and imprisoned for killing her batterer.

Indeed Mr Sharif's proactive pursuit of peace with India became the primary reason for his forcible ouster from power by the army in October 1999 and he was subsequently imprisoned and exiled for intruding into what the army considers its exclusive foreign policy domain.

Riots and protests are becoming more common, which is not surprising considering the fact inmates are being imprisoned without having committed a crime, for an indeterminate amount of time.

Not surprisingly various secessionist agitations have re-surfaced-the Avengers in the Niger - Delta have had particularly debilitating economic consequences, while the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) and its imprisoned leader, Nnamdi Kanu have become notorious for their defiance of federal power.

Because of their larger size and the large number of eggs they can carry, they can not leave their galls and become «imprisoned».

The Breadwinner is the story of Parvana, a young girl living under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy and become the breadwinner of the family when her father is unfairly imprisoned for being an intellectual.

When not imprisoned, Colleen became part of a strange new life as a live - in slave, family child - minder, and victim of Cameron's bizarre and extreme S&M fantasies.

Summary Capsule: A parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.

Imprisoned in a cinema, a young couple's date night turns into a fight for survival as a deranged projectionist (Robert Englund) manipulates them into becoming unwilling actors in his own twisted film.

Darwan was imprisoned for his beliefs in India and can never return, having become a US citizen through political asylum back in 2000.

After its first screening, Andrew Jarecki's Capturing the Friedmans, the Documentary Grand Prize winner, became as hot a ticket as any fiction film, the result of its sensational subject (a middle - class, Long Island, Jewish family is destroyed when the father and one of the sons are arrested, tried, and imprisoned for multiple counts of child sexual molestation).

Imprisoned by a brothel and dressed in women's clothes, his sensuous beauty is exploited as he is made to become Rukhsana, a pawn in a game between colony and empire.

«Rapunzel» became «Rehema,» a fly gabar imprisoned in Fort Jesus.

That's about when Christensen gets desperate calls for help because pigs don't handle stairs well and can become essentially imprisoned in their upper - level apartment.

Eon then gave these Villains a choice — either remain imprisoned or become Skylander Senseis, teaching a new generation of Imaginators their formidable battle skills as well as how to stay clear of a life of crime.

They became Gem Smashers, traveling the world to spring, spin, and smash the crystal cells where their friends are imprisoned.

In the trailer, we are introduced to Atriox, who is a Brute imprisoned by the Covenant who eventually was able to overcome the odds and become a hero.

It was not long before Yugoslavia surrendered and he became a prisoner of war where he was imprisoned in the Ferramonti internment camp.

Can we send them back to Somalia — an anarchic corner of East Africa that hasn't had a functioning central government since 1991 — or do they become wards of the state that imprisoned them?

My only point in making my comment is that defendants in many areas of the country should not be automatically thrilled when judges get more discretion in these modern days where all sorts of criminals are demonized (from white collar guys to Scooter Libby to the worst, sex offenders) and «imprison, imprison, imprison» becomes the public cry.

It is unlikely that a wrongly convicted employee who is imprisoned is in any better legal position as it is even more likely that, assuming neither party is at fault, the contract becomes frustrated.

When he accidentally discovers that he is a Conduit — a person with super powers — he becomes the target of an oppressive government agency known as the Department of Unified Protection, aka the D.U.P., that is tasked with «regulating» (read: imprisoning) Conduits.