Sentences with phrase «imprisoned because»

«While we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Black Panthers, I think it's really important to remember that there are a lot of people who are still imprisoned because of their activism.

He coerced Bruce to give a false statement about this at court but was imprisoned because he boasted while he was drunk about how he cheated against the law.

So why should he be imprisoned because he did what all people did to animals every day of their existence.

I have been watching carefully all this time, watching men who have little freedom, men who have been imprisoned because of terrible crimes.

On Wednesday, Iraj Kamalabadi and other Baha'is came to Washington to tell the commission just how bad things are for his sister, Fariba Kamalabadi, and six others who have been imprisoned because of their faith since 2008.

Not exact matches

Caligula was quite popular at first because he freed citizens who were unjustly imprisoned and got rid of a stiff sales tax.

Namely, Christians were actually killed and imprisoned and tortured because they broke the laws of the land.

While Iran's government claims to promote tolerance, it continues to imprison many of its people because of their faith.

because Afghans are the ones invading American bases, killing civilians, and imprisoning Americas in bases where they burn bibles and crosses, right?

The relevant issue isn't whether a police officer or a judge wants to be given a ticket or imprisoned, because these are not arbitrarily defined punishments but consequences.

Courts don't imprison molesters because the Judge wouldn't want to be imprisoned?

I also believe that an individual who would otherwise be against that might do it only because if he doesn't he might be punished or imprisoned or ostracized for it.

It is simple minded thinking that keeps them imprisoned in their «fish bowl» because its the only thing their eyes can see.

BTW, I wanted to mention, I really like the title «prayer from a cell» because of the different meanings of «cell»... imprisoned, small group of people, smallest living building block, etc..

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

(A stronger version of this, which killed or imprisoned the entire inner circle and most top Baathists, would amount to «dynasty change,» but because it would assume the emergence of another strongman, likely from the ranks of Baathist officers, it would not be regime change.)

The novel is about men imprisoned, men who live together yet apart, who must learn the lessons women seem to know already because they are lessons about living in community, about nurturing and about accepting pain and humiliation as part of life.

I agree with you buddy,, i am on the side of Gabriele... he should be given another chance not to be imprisoned that long because though the action is mistakenly wrong but I believe it will yield good result..

The first year is death (shedding of the blood and sacrifice) the second day or the second thousand years is the revival though he himself is not seen because he is operating in apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers and evangelists (this was symbolized in him preaching to the lost souls or spirits imprisoned) then the third day represents the last 1000 years which signifies his second coming which he will appear and reign..

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.

Novelist Alex LaGuma and poet Dennis Brutus were each imprisoned on Robben Island because of their work.

Because they were naked, they were not imprisoned in their own age by time - bound fashions.

At one time, the earth was even flat according to your «bible» and poor Galileo was imprisoned for stating the earth wasn't the center of the universe because your bible said otherwise.

Every time I cross an Israeli check point trying to get to work to put food on the table, I say my prayers because the odds are I will be imprisoned, detained, or harassed.

If, for example, Jesus had simply been a great moral teacher, a gentle rabbi who did nothing more than urge his devoted followers to love God... he would scarcely have been seen as a threat to the social order John the Baptist was imprisoned and executed because of his preaching... Jesus was to fare no better.

, a retelling of the story of Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who was imprisoned in Communist Romania for 14 years because of his faith in Christ.

Because they are no longer limited or imprisoned by «this body,» they are more alive than ever.

The judgment scene in Matthew 25 answers the question: The sheep inherit the kingdom because they feed Jesus when he's hungry, clothe him when he's the naked, visit him when he's sick and imprisoned, welcome him when he's a stranger.

Joseph had it super rough (sold into slavery by his family, imprisoned, falsely accused) but it was only because his life was so excruciating that God was able to use him to the extent he did and raise him to the heights he did (Prime Minister of Egypt, so to speak).

we see what is happening with Man u, if we suffer the same fate then I the whole board should be imprisoned for life because they know they have a big decision to make and are shirking it... LOSERS!!!!!

April 1 — Already without the services of former England midfielder Adam Johnson, imprisoned for six years after his conviction on charges of sexual activity with a 15 - year - old girl, struggling English Premier League team Sunderland have now had to sack one - time Arsenal fullback Emmanuel Eboué, who has been banned from football for 12 months by FIFA because of an unpaid debt owed to his former representative.

Nursing lying down made my PPD worse because I felt imprisoned.

At stake is not only an Obama break with the Bush - Cheney «dark side» here and abroad, but enough understanding among Americans that this current president has consistently and insistently maintained that he has the power to indefinitely imprison a terrorism suspect who can not be brought before a military commission or into one of our federal courts because the purported evidence against him or her can't be admitted.

Separating those convicted of trivial offences from their family, forcing them to socialise with serious criminals, stuffing our prisons to the rafters, costing the taxpayer millions, letting out other prisoners because we're imprisoning people for stealing a Mars bar: these are not sensible policies.

BAIL REFORM: Cuomo and lawmakers introduced different versions of proposals to eliminate cash bail in misdemeanors and non-violent cases to ensure criminal defendants aren't imprisoned simply because they are poor.

Because of his outspoken defense of the rights of engineers and other professionals to form their own societies, independent of state control, he was arrested and imprisoned for more than 12 years.

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

Because of their connections with the royal family, the Firouzes were imprisoned.

A study by Perth's Telethon Kids Institute has found children with a parent who has gone to prison are significantly more likely to have poor development outcomes — yet many risk being overlooked because there is no standard system in place to Read more about «Invisible» children of imprisoned parents at risk of falling through the cracks - Scimex

And then you take a stand, declaring that it's unacceptable that your life is growing smaller and smaller because you have outgrown the tiny box he imprisoned you in.

Which is to say that the film's interpretation of apartheid may reflect most poorly on the film not because it's wrong but because it's intellectually lazy and, here's the real kicker, LESS INTERESTING than it would have been to show the aliens as not yet another oppressed minority (which has been done to death) but a mass suppressed by an elite group, made to feel like an «other» when, in fact, it's imprisoned in its own homeland.

The events of 2016's Captain America: Civil War, unsurprisingly, loom large over the teaser trailer, not only because the blockbuster left ex-con Scott Lang a fugitive — he and Steve Rogers» other allies were imprisoned at the Raft, and then broken out — but because his actions had consequences for those around him.

(I've started some things that begin nearly the same as A Shade of Vampire too — a girl is suddenly imprisoned to be food for vampires, but falls in love with a prince of vampires... and... that's about it, because truthfully I didn't read Shade of Vampire closely.

Out of favor meant easily imprisoned, and that is indeed how Dante gets to prison: by being wrongly accused of connections to Bonaparte, and because a power - hungry magistrate ignored facts in order to further his career.

Personally, I can't imagine battling the IRS for a full ten years, and winning, because I know they like to make examples of tax holdouts (simply Google Wesley Snipes for details on how far they'll go...), and that they've got no qualms about imprisoning anyone they've determined to be a «tax cheat».

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.

As well as all this happy backslapping and thanking, and sharing the joy my team has experienced on behalf of those poor imprisoned dogs when someone, anyone, signs and shares that petition link, I'm equally upset and disappointed when so - called animal welfare organisations actively refuse to help a petition written specifically to prevent cruelty, from achieving Parliamentary debate as soon as possible — just because it wasn't their idea.

If only because of my desire to imprison the original creative team, along with most people at -LSB-...]

Many of Lysenkoism's opponents, such as his former mentor Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, were imprisoned or even executed because of Lysenko's and Prezent's denunciations.

The thing about American children is that they have large indoor and garden spaces, but they are imprisoned in the suburb because they can't drive.