Example sentences of "to two [noun pl] ' imprisonment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 . |
| 2 | After he had been found guilty of homosexual offences and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour , the press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack . |
| 3 | Both men were also sentenced to two years ' imprisonment after admitting they had conspired to corruptly obtain a consideration from Mr Barrett . |
| 4 | On 17 October , both appellants pleaded guilty to the counts charging handling stolen goods and they were sentenced , Christou to two years ' imprisonment and Wright to three years ' imprisonment on each count concurrent . |
| 5 | The jury , however , convicted him on this count , and he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently . |
| 6 | A marketing executive for the Boeing Co. , Richard Lee Fowler , was sentenced on Jan. 13 , 1990 , to two years ' imprisonment for passing over 100 classified Defence Department documents , including a five-year budget projection , to Boeing between 1979 and 1985 . |
| 7 | Laclé , sentenced to two years ' imprisonment , was pardoned by Eyadema in early January 1990 . |
| 8 | Sánchez had in August 1989 been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for spreading false information " detrimental to international peace " to foreign journalists following the July trial and execution of senior army officers for drug trafficking [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] . |
| 9 | His co-defendant , Rudolf Ernst , who was resident in New York , was sentenced in his absence to two years ' imprisonment . |
| 10 | Amaoui had been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for defamation of the government in an interview published in El País on March 11 in which he had described members of the government as thieves [ see also p. 38888 ] . |
| 11 | Also on Sept. 4 Milko Balev , deputy communist party leader under Zhivkov , was found guilty of illegal currency transactions and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment . |
| 12 | The High Court on Dec. 14 sentenced opposition campaigner Chakufwa Chihana to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour for sedition . |
| 13 | Col. Amadeo Martínez Inglés was sentenced to two months ' imprisonment on Dec. 12 , 1989 , for advocating , in a book entitled Defenceless Spain , an end to conscription and its replacement by a professional Army . |
| 14 | The leader of the Kosovo Parliamentary Party , Veton Suroi , was subsequently sentenced to two months ' imprisonment for organising the event without seeking permission , or registering it with the police . |