imprisonment

Examples of imprisoned

imprisoned

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

If a ' doctor ' who is not currently registered holds himself out as being so registered, he is liable to be fined or imprisoned.
But whatever comforts an imprisoned libeller obtained for himself came at a high price, and impoverished vendors were routinely thrown in with common felons.
The government accused the opposition parties of causing these incidents themselves and their leaders were imprisoned.
Unlike the academic moralists, she is not "firmly imprisoned in an ivory tower" (p. 8).
Of those 146 allegedly imprisoned, 123 fatalities were thought to have occurred from suffocation in one night, with only 23 total survivors - including a woman.
Both infected patients were male drug addicts (44 and 29 years old) and imprisoned at the time of examination.
When all the players of one side are imprisoned, the game is won by the opposite party.
Only 19 percent of those who had been imprisoned were jailed for periods that did not exceed one month.
What would it be like to be an already aware individual with an ongoing history imprisoned in a child's body?
They are aware of the police investigations, and the boy being imprisoned, and its ending up as a criminal case.
He was imprisoned in 1995 but has continued to write from his cell.
As a result, all of the parties are now "imprisoned in violence" (p. 165).
Their leaders were imprisoned and no petition was ever delivered.
Financial support for strikers and petitions to the santista authorities to release imprisoned workers illustrates a high level of concern for other associations.
The judges had decided that the imprisoned gentlemen could not be released on bail - nothing more or less.
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