Sentences with phrase «imprisonment as»

Indigenous women also serve comparatively shorter sentences, suggesting a general failure to employ the principle of imprisonment as a last resort.

Minimising the number of our people who die in custody requires a commitment in policy and practice to use arrest and imprisonment as a last resort.

This means you can cite your spouse's imprisonment as the reason for your divorce.

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The arguments presented teeter on a false premise: you describe the only possible justifications for imprisonment as, on the one hand, «because it makes us feel good» and, on the other hand, deterrence — presented with those false alternatives, it's hardly a surprise that we end up on a road which leads to an argument for less imprisonment.

After two juries convicted John Mark Clarke of two counts of second degree rape, the sentencing court imposed a maximum sentence of life imprisonment as required by statute.

At the end of the day, they can exploit their monopoly in as draconian a manner as they wish, and they can resist society's appetite for innovation as much as they want, because the monopoly is absolute, and increasingly, they have terms of imprisonment as an enforcement tool.

If the person is convicted of reckless homicide, then a person may not apply for reinstatement until after 2 years from the effective date of revocation, or after the expiration of 24 months from the date of release from a period of imprisonment as provided in Section 6 - 103 of this Code, whichever is later.

Its requirement for imprisonment as evidence of the application of the discriminatory measure (para. 59), which thereby provides the gateway to persecution, ignores the actual daily experiences of gay and lesbian refugees in a climate of fear.

All OH&S legislation in Canada provides for imprisonment as a possible penalty for those convicted of an offence.

[W] e believe that the central premise of Argersinger — that actual imprisonment is a penalty different in kind from fines or the mere threat of imprisonment — is eminently sound, and warrants adoption of actual imprisonment as the line defining the constitutional right to appointment of counsel.

Indeed, it might be argued that the existence of such a power in a society which long ago closed the Marshalsea prison and abandoned imprisonment as a remedy for the enforcement of debts, is anomalous.

Underscoring the irony and sarcastic implications of this sentence, Canevari defines and develops the idea of imprisonment as both a physical and psychological state.

Your led on a quest to free elder sheep from imprisonment as well, so that you may all prosper outside the prison walls.

One of the reasons I've made it my life's mission to raise awareness about it is that east of the Rockies, so many people I consider to be well - informed and well educated are totally aghast when I tell them about my imprisonment as a child.

Not exact matches

Lukashenko's re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of leading opposition figures, but support for his 20 - year - old regime has risen after he cast himself as the guarantor of stability in the face of economic crisis and a pro-Russian separatist conflict in neighboring Ukraine.

So the smart narcos are preoccupied with what Peter Reuter and Mark Kleiman once referred to, in a classic essay on the drug business, as «the marginal imprisonment risk.»

Persons attempting to provide services in competition with entities such as these are aggressively punished by fines and imprisonment.

«Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery... the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed... they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.»

It detailed Christians as «being hung on a cross over a fire, crushed under a steamroller, herded off bridges and trampled underfoot... extra-judicial killing, extermination, enslavement / forced labour, forcible transfer of population, arbitrary imprisonment, torture, persecution, enforced disappearance, rape and sexual violence, and other inhumane acts.»

Born in Lancashire in the 1560s Gerard was educated at Oxford, Rheims and Paris before returning to England where he had his first experience of imprisonment for the Faith as a layman.

From the first introduction of Bartleby as «pallid,» to his imprisonment in «the Tombs,» to the postscript's rumor of «dead letters,» Melville plays with common phrases that mention death, restoring to these dead metaphors more and more of their original morbid meaning.

7) The death penalty should not be imposed if the purposes of punishment can be equally well or better achieved by bloodless means, such as imprisonment.

They were able to have three children together during his imprisonment, and he wanted desperately to parent them even as he served a sentence of 20 years to life.

In addition, so far as the public is concerned, imprisonment offers potential victims short - term security at best, Ninety - five per cent of those incarcerated are released after serving an average sentence of from 24 to 32 months.

The minutes of the 1870 Congress of the American Prison Association / American Correctional Association quote a Judge Carter of Ohio as saying that any system of imprisonment or punishment is degradation, and can not reform a man.

The couple was kidnapped in an attempt to force the «release of our captives who sit behind bars and suffer the paint of imprisonment, as well as being deprived of their basic rights,» a recording from al - Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said.

The commission cited the rampant imprisonment of prisoners of conscience, the startling increase in refugees, and the ongoing bigotry toward Jews and Muslims in Europe, as examples of attacks on religious adherents.

Humiliating as it was, he felt he was avoiding the greater dangers of arrest and imprisonment.

Oh yes, that old antiquated law of holiday observance that must be obeyed or we shall receive 50 lashes, be subject to fines and imprisonment, brought before a firing squad, burned at the stake, and worst of all, face excommunication from the Church, as decreed by the Holy Roman Empire!

As servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute.

As Ferreira recalls his own imprisonment, he implores Rodrigues to renounce his faith for the sake of the Japanese Christians being tortured because of him — those who will not be released until Rodrigues tramples the image of Christ.

Yet whether it was the ecclesiastical or the civil authorities that opposed them by imprisonment, ejection, scourging, or death, or as often happened, a conjunction of the two when the crowd stirred up trouble, the book of Acts gives a remarkable picture of their steadfastness under opposition and attack.6 The gospel of salvation through Christ put iron in their souls, and nothing could daunt them in their witness to it.

That «enemy» used top - down, brutal methods, such as power - grab by force, a repressive political regime, imprisonment and killing.

Later, in a typical 110 - word sentence, Paul pushes the envelope of language as he throws out image after ecstatic image of hard times on the mission circuit — of calamities, beatings and imprisonments, of being treated «as unknown and yet are well known» — when he blurts out, «As dying — and looas he throws out image after ecstatic image of hard times on the mission circuit — of calamities, beatings and imprisonments, of being treated «as unknown and yet are well known» — when he blurts out, «As dying — and looas unknown and yet are well known» — when he blurts out, «As dying — and looAs dying — and look!

1) release from bondage or imprisonment, remission of the penalty 2) forgiveness of sins (letting them go as if they had never been committed)

My crime, being a Palestinian and hate Israelis... if this justifies imprisonment, guilty as charged, and proud of it...

He grew beyond that weakness, as subsequent imprisonments prove.

But the views of Copernicus were regarded as heretical by the church authorities, and an eminent philosopher, Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600), was convicted of heresy in 1594 for professing them and after six years of imprisonment in which he refused to recant, he died at the stake.

He saw it as the chance to beat the drugs that had nearly destroyed him, and he prayed that his imprisonment would bring some comfort to the victims of his disordered life.

It will probably mean severe hardships, imprisonment and possibly even death (as we are now seeing in Muslim countries).

Paul may desire parole from his physical imprisonment, yet even if he walks out of jail as a «free man,» he is still bound in obedient servitude to Christ.

Imprisonment especially affected the poor, who could not fall back on a profession, as could doctors and others who went into exile and resumed their work with the help of foreign colleagues.

Here we can not go into the analyses of each of these trends or the adequacy of Ferré's interpretation of the recent trends in American theology, except to say that theologians of different persuasions, with the possible exception of the so - called liberals, while recognizing the usefulness of the history of religions, nevertheless agree with Professor Hendrik Kraemer in stating that only theology «is able to produce that attitude of freedom of the spirit and of impartial understanding, combined with a criticism and evaluation transcending all imprisonment in preconceived ideas and principles as ultimate standards of reference.»