7 sentences with “imprisonment”

The essential threat of violence and imprisonment during the Stalinist period cast a long shadow over the rest of Soviet history.

On March 2, 1992, the jury found Virginia Rearden guilty of first-degree murder. And on the 30th of the same month, Judge Revak handed down a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

In the decades that followed, the slightest sign of dissent by a Russian subject was grounds for imprisonment or exile to a Siberian prison village, and thus kept at bay the political and social changes sweeping the rest of Europe.

Although Germans were encouraged to identify with the Nazi state, and joining the Nazi Party itself soon became an excellent way to advance one's career, the Nazis also threatened those who dared to defy them with imprisonment or death.

Stalin died in 1954, leaving behind a country that was still comparatively poor but enormously powerful. Moreover, Stalin left a legacy of death and imprisonment that affected almost every family in the USSR, with millions still trapped in the gulags of Siberia.

The only form of political organisation tolerated in Tibet is communist, and many live in fear of the "examinations" by which soldiers put monks and nuns in the dilemma of giving up their desire to see a free and independent Tibet, or face torture and imprisonment.

Catalonia was the last Republican region to fall to Franco's nationalists during the Civil War, and the Generalissimo took his revenge. Books written in Catalan were burned and police were stationed in schools to ensure that the language was not taught. Catalans were warned to "speak in Christian" in public, on pain of imprisonment or fines.