Sentences with phrase «house arrest because»

Even the Roman Catholic Pope placed Galileo under house arrest because he said the earth revolved around the sun, contrary to Catholic beliefs.

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We speculate that she's always at home because she's under house - arrest for some trumped up drug trafficking charges.

A terror suspect referred to as «AF» has been released from a control order because the government was unwilling to reveal the intelligence justifying his virtual house arrest.

Because of her efforts to bring democracy to military - ruled Burma, Suu Kyi spent most of the last 20 years in detention or under house arrest.

Gillibrand said Sunday that she sent a letter to Sessions inviting him to talk about the impacts the War on Drugs has had on New York's black and Latino communities with constituents who are denied jobs, housing and college financial aid because of nonviolent, low - level pot arrests.

Chun's sentence for Liang was not unexpected, coming just weeks after Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson called for probation, six months of house arrest and 500 hours of community service because the officer was reckless but didn't intend to kill.

Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's semi-documentary was given its title because on a certain level, it isn't a film in the way of Panahi's past work — it has no script or actors, it was shot in the Tehran apartment in which he's been serving out his house arrest, and it's centered around his talking through the feature he would have made had he not been banned from filmmaking for 20 years.

This Is Not a Film (directed with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 11), shot while Panahi was under house arrest in his Tehran apartment, is a tantalizing hybrid of documentary self - portrait and contemplative fiction, at once an act of rebellion and a singular example of film as legal loophole: Panahi was effectively telling his persecutors, «You never specified that I couldn't make a film like this, because you never could have anticipated me making it.»

There, Mustafa (voice of Liam Neeson), a famed and adored poet, has been under house arrest for the past seven years, because the local government believes his words could cause an uprising among the people.

I doubt that the banking software police will come to your house and beat you into unconsciousness and arrest you because you labeled an account «checking» that you were supposed to label «savings».

The house can not get too hot or too cold because the thermostat arrests excessive changes in temperature.

The back - radiation explanation of the greenhouse effect that people used to prefer until recently is less satisfactory because it has the kinds of problems I pointed out 16 months ago in an article on this blog, which was received at the time with only slightly more enthusiasm than Galileo's heliocentric account of planetary motions: at least no one suggested I be placed under house arrest for it!

There is the woman who called 9 -1-1 (audio available here) because she thought the police officer who had just visited her house on a complaint was a «cutie pie» and she wanted him to come back (he did come back and arrested her for misusing 9 -1-1).

Conditional sentences are sometimes called «house arrest,» because they often require an offender to spend all or part of the sentence in their house.

Circumstances either compel people to use a lawyer's services so, for example, all the work on a house move can be completed — if the necessary legal work was not completed there would be no new house to enjoy; or people turn to lawyers because something has gone wrong — maybe their family is breaking up, they have been involved in an accident, or they have been arrested.

Parents of youth with internalizing and externalizing behaviors, substance use and abuse, delinquency, police arrests, out - of - home placements, and deviant peer association; parents who are depressed, highly stressed, living in poverty or high - crime neighborhoods, Spanish - speaking immigrants, parents returning from wars (e.g., Iraq / Afghanistan) who may be experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mothers living in shelters or supportive housing because of homelessness or domestic violence, birth parents whose children are in care because of abuse / neglect, and family with transitions such as divorce, single parenting, and step - families