Example sentences of "two [noun pl] ' imprisonment " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not surprising that there is widespread protest against the sentence of two months ' imprisonment … passed on the Liverpool Constable who admitted that he had taken four oranges , worth threepence , from a shed in the West Canada Dock … pilfering by the Police is a different matter from the same offence committed by a street urchin . |
| 2 | Unscrupulous operators took the two months ' imprisonment in their stride . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus , to return to the arguments mobilized against the CLRC 's proposal : the chief difference in protection of the vulnerable between the present system and the CLRC 's is that the latter had a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment , whereas life imprisonment is available where a defence of diminished responsibility succeeds ; and the fundamental ethical problems are now swept under the carpet by a combination of a stretched diagnosis of ‘ abnormality of mind ’ and the ample judicial sentencing discretion , whereas the CLRC 's proposal attempted to make the issues justiciable . |
| 8 | Another aggravated offence is assault with intent to resist arrest or to prevent a lawful arrest , contrary to section 38 of the 1861 Act and carrying a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 9 | The Mental Health Act 1983 contains a somewhat similar offence of ill-treating or wilfully neglecting a patient in a mental hospital , which has a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 10 | This offence , with its maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment , encompasses two classes of weapon : first , an article made or adapted for use as a weapon ; and second , any article intended for such use . |
| 11 | This offence is punishable only with a fine , whereas reckless driving carries a maximum of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 12 | Other types of fraud and mistake are held to be insufficient for the offence of rape , and bring the case within the lesser offence of procuring a woman by false pretences or false representations to have unlawful sexual intercourse ( section 3 , Sexual Offences Act 1956 , carrying a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment ) . |
| 13 | Until 1985 the maximum penalty for indecent assault on a female was two years ' imprisonment , compared with ten years for indecent assault on a male — a legacy of the horror with which homosexuality was viewed , and of the undervaluing of female sexual and physical autonomy — but the maximum penalty for both forms of indecent assault is now ten years . |
| 14 | The anomaly is increased by the fact that , under the present law , two young men under 21 who consensually commit ‘ gross indecency ’ are both liable to conviction for the offence : the rule in Tyrrell is inapplicable here , but the maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment where the offender is under 21 , compared with five years where he is over 21 . |
| 15 | If the dog runs out of control , the fine can be unlimited and there is provision for a maximum two years ' imprisonment . |
| 16 | Both men were also sentenced to two years ' imprisonment after admitting they had conspired to corruptly obtain a consideration from Mr Barrett . |
| 17 | Insider dealings are prohibited , and those who commit such dealings are liable to prosecution in the criminal court with a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 18 | McCann , in which the Court of Appeal reduced the sentence for a relatively minor burglary by an offender who had only one distant previous conviction , from two years ' imprisonment to nine months . |
| 19 | Sentence : two years ' imprisonment for robbery , with sentences for the other offences concurrent ( total , two years ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The importance which the legislature attached to the observance of the regulatory system is demonstrated by section 4 , which makes a contravention of section 3 an offence , punishable on conviction on indictment by a term of two years ' imprisonment or a fine or both . |
| 22 | The jury , however , convicted him on this count , and he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently . |
| 23 | My Lords , this is an appeal brought by the Director of Public Prosecutions with the leave of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1334 from a decision of that court on 22 April 1991 allowing the appeal of the respondent defendant , Edwin Gomez , against his convictions on 20 and 24 April 1990 at Isleworth Crown Court on two counts of theft , for which he received concurrent sentences of two years ' imprisonment , and quashing those convictions . |
| 24 | It shares many of the features of the offence under section 4 , although the penalty at two years ' imprisonment is greater . |
| 25 | The maximum penalty for this offence when perpetrated against a woman was formerly two years ' imprisonment , rising to five where she was under 13.6 In 1985 , it was raised to ten years ' imprisonment regardless of the victim 's age . |
| 26 | Eventually in 1275 the first Statute of Westminster appears to have provided that the ravishment of any woman was an offence punishable with a penalty of two years ' imprisonment and ransom and in 1285 the second Statute of Westminster turned this into a capital offence . |
| 27 | Defendants were frequently prepared to plead guilty under the old law with its maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 28 | Professor Williams , however , not only believes that rape should have a limited ambit because of the severity of the penalty , but that procuring a woman by threat should also be subject to limitations even though its maximum penalty is merely two years ' imprisonment . |
| 29 | The maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment or an unlimited fine . |
| 30 | 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 . |