Example sentences of "[prep] 20 years ' imprisonment " in BNC.
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| 1 | We regard murders committed in this country by terrorists as deserving a minimum of 20 years ' imprisonment for those people . |
| 2 | The charges of gross embezzlement and abuse of power carried a maximum sentence of 20 years ' imprisonment , but Zhivkov , aged 79 , looked unlikely to suffer this fate since Bulgarian law did not permit anyone over 80 to be sent to prison . |
| 3 | Among the possible prisoners of conscience are 37 people sentenced to up to 20 years ' imprisonment for their involvement in a peaceful flag-raising ceremony in the town of Jayapura on 14 December 1988 . |
| 4 | Assistant teacher Habib Ben Malek was sentenced in the same trial in 1977 to 20 years ' imprisonment . |
| 5 | On July 27 Robert Louis White , 46 , grand dragon of the Maryland Knights of the Ku Klux Klan , pleaded guilty to charges of illegal possession of firearms , he faced up to 20 years ' imprisonment . |
| 6 | Some 157 demonstrators were subsequently convicted of a range of offences and were sentenced to up to 20 years ' imprisonment . |
| 7 | Richard W. Miller , 53 , a former agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) , was sentenced to 20 years ' imprisonment on Feb. 4 for having supplied classified documents to a female Soviet agent in exchange for sexual favours and promises of money and gold . |
| 8 | Proksch was sentenced to 20 years ' imprisonment for the murders and for attempted fraud , the ship having been loaded with scrap metal but insured as carrying uranium-processing equipment valued at US$15,000,000 . |
| 9 | José Abrantes Fernández , Interior Minister until June 1989 , who was sentenced in July 1989 to 20 years ' imprisonment for negligence and misuse of government funds in connection with drug trafficking [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] died of a heart attack on Jan. 21 , 1991 . |
| 10 | Salvador Jorge Blanco , 62 , President in 1982-1986 , was sentenced to 20 years ' imprisonment and fined US$5,760,000 on Aug. 8 for the misappropriation of public funds through the over-invoicing of arms purchases bought from companies headed by his associates . |
| 11 | Five people were sentenced to death , six to life imprisonment , 44 to 20 years ' imprisonment and four to 15 years ' imprisonment ; five of the defendants were acquitted . |
| 12 | Arne Treholt , 49 , who had been sentenced in mid-1985 to 20 years ' imprisonment for espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Iraq [ see p. 34113 ] , was pardoned on July 3 on health grounds ; his second wife had died earlier in the year and he was reportedly suffering from depression . |
| 13 | The military prosecutor had applied for nine death sentences , but when the sentences were announced on Aug. 30 five men were acquitted , 11 received sentences ranging from one to 20 years ' imprisonment , and the group 's leader Habib Lessoued received life imprisonment . |
| 14 | On Nov. 10 Laith Shbeilat and Yaqoub Qarrash , both members of the House of Representatives , were sentenced to 20 years ' imprisonment with hard labour after being found guilty by the State Security Court of membership of the banned Shabab al-Nafeer al-Islami ( Islamic Vanguard Youth ) and of possessing illegal weapons [ see pp. 39118 ; 39166 ] . |