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Example sentences for "life imprisonment"

  • Should ye condemn the arsonist and the murderer to life imprisonment, it would be permissible according to the provisions of the Book.

  • Her sentence might just as well have read "life imprisonment" as forty-nine years, for she cannot live but a few years longer in confinement.

  • In the meantime an application was made to the President to change the sentence of death to that of life imprisonment.

  • The old woman was sentenced to be hung also with her husband, but the governor commuted her sentence to that of life imprisonment.

  • Her sentence was commuted to a life imprisonment.

  • Out of fifty-two of his sentences, twenty-seven heretics were sentenced to life imprisonment.

  • However, the law allowed the heretic to abjure even at the foot of the stake; in that case his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

  • This patient was admitted to our hospital on two occasions, the first time while awaiting trial on a charge of murder, and the second time soon after conviction and sentence to life imprisonment.

  • He has, of course, by this time consigned many hospital officials to life imprisonment, and the amount of damages which he expects to collect from them and the Government runs into fabulous sums.

  • His hopes are shattered when he is found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.

  • He was sentenced to life imprisonment, and when the little mother heard the verdict--a frail little bit of a woman--she threw up her hands and fell in a swoon.

  • He was tried and Judge Ferand, in sentencing him to life imprisonment said: "You are the seventh man in two years to be sentenced for murder while intoxicated.

  • And Judge McClure sentenced him to life imprisonment.

  • They circulated a petition, brought it to Harrisburg to the governor, and the committee that waited upon the governor, among them some of his own friends, pleaded with him to commute the sentence to life imprisonment.

  • Sanguilly, who was suspected by some Cubans of having betrayed their cause, was held, tried, and condemned to life imprisonment; a fact which cleared him of suspicion of complicity with the Spaniards.

  • There were not a few who at first suspected and even charged that Sanguilly himself had betrayed the cause, for Spanish money, but his sentence to life imprisonment by the Spanish authorities seemed abundantly to disprove this charge.

  • He wouldn't go back to life imprisonment, not after he had tasted the sweet freedom of the wide spaces--such a freedom as the trammeled city cannot offer.

  • But instead he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary at Joliet.

  • Even the latter was to be preferred to life imprisonment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    badly wounded; body and; find nothing; free agency; heated dish; holy ground; life annuity; life away; life eternal; life forms; life freely; life insurance; life itself; life member; life must; life phenomena; life saving; life size; life unto; life when; life which; life worth; life would; little importance; mine eyes; standard work