Sentences with phrase «under 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.
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.
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.
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!