Word: imprison
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...authorities worried about the possibility of more violence, Higgins barred the gates. The ruling means that prisoners will stay longer in county jails, which already hold 3,500 inmates convicted of state-level crimes. State Attorney General W.J. Michael Cody has asked the judge to allow the state to imprison murderers, rapists and armed robbers. Prison authorities are hoping that the legislature will approve emergency measures to allow earlier releases for well-behaved prisoners. CALIFORNIA Win Some, Lose Some...
...times, the book suffers from relentless earnestness and somewhat hackneyed descriptions. But Hosseini has a remarkable ability to imprison the reader in horrific, shatteringly immediate scenes?not least the incident in which Hassan is violated. The result is a sickening sensation of complicity. Like Amir, the reader watches the suffering and does nothing. Hosseini turns that shared guilt into a subtle condemnation of a world that watched the rape of Afghanistan?first by the Soviets, then by regional warlords and the Taliban. True evil, he suggests, comes when good people allow bad things to happen...
...Russian authorities like to play a game of chicken,” he says, explaining that he suspects officials hope Okhotin will flee the country before his trial, in which case they can declare him guilty and imprison...
...house). Most of us don’t need numbers to know when we are threatened, tacitly or not. Why must sex be forever attached to fear in women’s minds? It has been said that reminding people of the persistence of rape serves to imprison female psychology within this link, and I fear that’s true. But the alternative seems more dangerous. Even if we are not survivors, we are doing this for ourselves...
...participation in installing repressive regimes in Iran, Guatemala and Chile "ended up doing more damage in the long run to U.S. foreign policy." But more important, as a direct result of CIA intervention in foreign countries, despotic dictators were given the power to politically oppress their people and to imprison, torture and murder them. Ironically, these are among the same abuses that the U.S. government now cites in its argument for a military invasion of Iraq. Our policymakers continue to demonstrate a purely self-serving attitude toward the populations of poor non-Western countries. SHARON CONNOR Encinitas, Calif...