Sentences with phrase «kept under house arrest»

(In English and Armenian with subtitles) The Lady (R for violence and bloody images) Michelle Yeoh stars in the title role of this biopic about Nobel Peace Prize - winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the political prisoner recently - freed by the Burmese government after being kept under house arrest for 15 years.

As a condition of being released on bail before trial, he was ordered kept under house arrest in his luxury penthouse at The Tower, an exclusive high - rise located on Central Park West.

A number of outstanding scientists, including the Russian physicist Kapitsa who was for years kept under house arrest by Stalin, have refused to work on anything connected with atomic weapons.

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She, a former denizen of Oxford, was put under house arrest in 1989 and kept in custody virtually ever since.

That one of the most consistently amusing and enlivening movies to emerge from 2011's crop of festival films should have been made by a filmmaker under house arrest, his hands pretty much tied, his budget nil and equipment minimal, just goes to prove that you can't keep a good man down.

Trying to keep a determined feline breeding machine indoors during the long breeding season (virtually without interruption from January to September) is akin to keeping a teenager under house arrest!

Venezuela placed the opposition leader Leopoldo López under house arrest, hoping to keep him quiet.