How To Use Confinement In A Sentence

Neither do I think moraines of this kind would be formed by a glacier emerging from a steep narrow canyon and running out on a level plain; for in such cases, as soon as the confinement of the bounding walls is removed, the ice stream spreads out into an _ice lake_. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Town
Around 6,000 were jailed for their beliefs, some spending months in solitary confinement. The Sun
The mean selfish life builds its own prison walls and passes sentence of solitary confinement. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
New stellarators beat the confinement problem by creating a quasi-symmetric field - trading fiendishly complex magnetic fields for fiendishly complex magnets.
He served a year in prison - including eight months in solitary confinement.

he was held in confinement
On 7 September, resisting confinement in the post guardhouse, he received a fatal wound from a soldier's bayonet.
The arch - criminal was kept solitary confinement.
Application for maternity benefits must be made at least eight weeks before confinement, or within six months of the birth of the child.
In the opening portion of the dance, Tuson and Olson dramatize a legend in which the wind is freed from its confinement by a bear.
And while it's pretty expensive to incarcerate men, you can expect to spend double the cost to incarcerate women because of the cost of their confinement and also the cost to society of their kids.
Everybody, but especially people with a mental disorder, needs expert legal advice when faced with statutory confinement.
Some local governments are requiring stall-feeding of livestock with forage gathered by hand, hoping that this confinement measure will permit grasslands to recover.
It may seem too much like confinement, a denial of individual enterprise and the constraining of intuition into patterns of conformity.
Below the decks, the middle passage was a hot, narrow, sunless nightmare; weeks and months of confinement and abuse and confusion on a strange and lonely sea.
Its defendants praised the reformatory emphasis of Pentonville, its generally softer punishment regime, its system of solitary confinement, and its emphasis on prisoners' self-development.
Everybody, but especially people with a mental disorder, needs expert legal advice when faced with statutory confinement.
Finally, any kind of attempt at escape will mean solitary confinement for 30 days.
The most severe penalty he could receive would be a suspension of pay, reduction in rank or confinement to the barracks.
In some parts of Bavaria such bushes are set up also at the houses of newly-married pairs, and the practice is only omitted if the wife is near her confinement; for in that case they say that the husband has set up a May-bush for himself. Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees. § 2. Beneficent Powers of Tree-Spirits
A married couple were detained in the same prison, but in separate confinement, for a period of about two months.
In the Court's view, the events that prompted the burgomaster's direction in May 1968… are of a nature to justify an ‘emergency’ confinement of the kind provided for at that time under section 14 of the Netherlands Act.
When it comes time for these dangerous offenders to be released, civil confinement thus becomes an appealing option.
He is so dangerous he has served all but four of his 34 years in prison in solitary confinement. The Sun
Will it be said that animals raised on close confinement systems, for example, do not fare well, all considered?
The paper, "Steric confinement of proteins on lipid membranes can drive curvature and tubulation," presents a new scientific understanding about the bending and curvatures of protein membranes. Media Newswire
If incarceration is necessary, then the defence submits that upper reformatory confinement is adequate penalty.
There is plenty of evidence, too, that orangs kept in cramped solitary confinement become not only bored but mentally sick.
Eventually, quantum confinement effects and tunneling currents dominate the device design.
His mother said he blew up because he's been in solitary confinement and has been repeatedly denied bail - and the stress is getting to him.
The mean selfish life builds its own prison walls and passes sentence of solitary confinement. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
There is no external scrutiny of their use, no limit on the length of time a detainee can spend there, and no way for detainees to appeal against their confinement.
She has been held in solitary confinement, and without charge. Times, Sunday Times
Last night he was being held in solitary confinement in Douglas jail.
Abnormalities of blood flow or venous stasis normally occur after prolonged immobility or confinement to bed.
Everybody, but especially people with a mental disorder, needs expert legal advice when faced with statutory confinement.
The animals are kept in close confinement.
Under Norwegian law, solitary confinement can only be imposed for four weeks at a time, but the prosecution is free ask for an extension when the term runs out. Reuters: Press Release
It may seem too much like confinement, a denial of individual enterprise and the constraining of intuition into patterns of conformity.
Obviously, such behavior is no basis for compelled treatment and surely none for confinement.
He was held in solitary confinement in the General Intelligence headquarters in Riyadh and was reportedly tortured.
The little River Quaggy has been liberated from decades of confinement in a concrete culvert and given a new naturalistic course; a home for wildlife and a delight for people.
Frustrated by this extreme confinement, sows engaged in "stereotypic" behaviors, which indicate poor welfare, like bar biting and head swaying. David Kirby: Humane Society Exposes Pig Breeding Horrors -- But It Doesn't Have to Be This Way
'To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Froomkin: A Blow Against Tyranny
The confinement made him fretful and exacting, and the old Marquise ascribed the change in his behaviour to the deplorable influence of his tutor, a "laic" recommended by one of Raymond's old professors. The Custom of the Country
In addition to having many psychopathic features, perpetrators of unlawful confinement shared several other characteristics.
Tender loving care helps to heal the mental trauma caused by a lifetime of pain and confinement.
I was handcuffed, shackled and blindfolded and held in solitary confinement for three months.
Hereupon the kafir put her into confinement, and called a palaver upon the bushreen's conduct. Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 01
Latino inmates with limited English skills were punished for failing to understand commands in English by being put in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day or keeping prisoners locked down in their jail pods for as long as 72 hours without a trip to the canteen area or making nonlegal phone calls. Joe Arpaio, Arizona Sheriff, Violated Civil Rights According To Justice Department Report
Fast ignition offers a potentially simpler method to achieve thermonuclear fusion without some of the technical hurdles facing conventional inertial-confinement fusion.
It represents a major step forward for the heavy-ion approach to inertial-confinement fusion, in which small pellets of thermonuclear fuel are compressed to the point of burning by beams of heavy ions.
And should every proprietor exercise his equal right to embank all his own lands, and thus the general operation shall strive to confine the river within the limits of its shores, the attempt must fail, and the floods, rising higher in proportion to their lateral confinement, will overtop any dykes which can be made by separate individuals, each working on his own separate plan. Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands
Secret confinement creates an alternative to the asportation element of kidnapping.
But is not the place and manner of confinement of a prisoner under sentence a matter wholly for the Executive?
She spent more than three months in solitary confinement before international pressure forced her release. Times, Sunday Times
The cub painted a high-light picture of his poor little room, its oil-stove and the one chair, and of the death's-head tramp who kept him company and who looked as if he had just emerged from twenty years of solitary confinement in some fortress dungeon. Chapter 39
Inspired, however, by the spirit of hereditary obstinacy, Charles preferred a useless resistance to a dignified submission, and, by a series of idle bravadoes, laid the French court under the necessity of arresting their late ally, and sending him to close confinement in the Bastille, from which he was afterwards sent out of the French dominions, much in the manner in which a convict is transported to the place of his destination. Redgauntlet
The theme of excess emphasized by this critic surfaces frequently in stereotypical critiques of the Irish and of the East and Easterners; the fear of excess suggests that the colonizing cultures dread an abundance that threatens to escape confinement at the same time that they use such accusations of excess to justify colonization. Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore
The favorite tortures of the Soviet Cheka, or secret police (then called NKVD) in the 1930's and 40's were merciless beatings, confinement in refrigerated cells, week-long sleep deprivation, and endless interrogations. Eric Margolis: Make the Torturers Face Justice
[13] I passed thro that city & should like to see his hymn upon the occasion & if there be any good in it, put it in a note. how mortifying is this confinement of yours — I had planned so many pleasant walks to be made so much more pleasant by conversation. for I have much to tell thee. much to say of the odd things we saw upon our journey Much of the dirt & vermin that annoyd us. Letter 165
He was equipped for instant duty, as far as the imperfect twilight would allow me to see; the long sword clanked upon the floor as he made his way through the lobbies which led to my place of confinement; his ample military cloak hung upon his arm; his cocked hat was upon his head, and in all points he was prepared for the road. The Purcell Papers
When in solitary confinement last year, a police interrogator got rough with him. Times, Sunday Times
The former civil servant has endured beatings, solitary confinement and death threats while in prison.
Unlawful confinement involves a physical restraint, contrary to the wishes of the person restrained.
The Hungerstraf I found to consist of confinement to a bedless and fireless barrack on a diet of pure and undiluted water. The Memoirs of a Swine in the Land of Kultur
Under Article 10 of the UCMJ and military case law, an accused in pretrial confinement must be brought to trial with "reasonable diligence. David Isenberg: Ahem: About That Great Change to the UCMJ
Extruded curbs were placed on both sides of the road for lateral confinement in the narrow road easement and for protection of the pavement surfacing during the occasional flooding of the canyon.
He was sentenced to 18 months in solitary confinement. Times, Sunday Times
She claims she was placed in solitary confinement because the Women's Center does not have a policy for intersexual prisoners.
What is more, the validity of the continued confinement depends upon the persistence of such a disorder.
The Last Supper, or a mere carouse as Ivan had called it (which caused his confinement in the dark shed), came to the apogee.
In my judgment the fact that there are mandatory requirements for release, which affect the Secretary of State, does not affect the legal basis of a prisoner's confinement, namely the length of sentence imposed by the court.
The excited banker then declared that he would bet him two million rubles that he wouldn't stay in solitary confinement for five years.
He feels that [the patient] does not cope well with confinement and being in close proximity to people he believes are more seriously ill than her.
He continued to regret the limitation on his career development imposed by what he saw as his confinement to Art teaching.
They are now being held in solitary confinement cells near to the execution ground. Times, Sunday Times
The hopeless oscillation of question-answer-question is like a figuring of confinement: bouncing off each other in a rigid reciprocality where neither party is able to move.
These days of confinement would have been, but for her private perplexities, remarkably comfortable, as such seclusion exactly suited her brother, whose feelings must always be of great importance to his companions; and he had, besides, so thoroughly cleared off his ill – humour at Randalls, that his amiableness never failed him during the rest of his stay at Hartfield. Emma
The old man grabbed hold of it and tugged it from its confinement, dragging it out into the driveway.
Amin is also subject to five months of home confinement and three years of supervised release, as well as 80 hours of community service. Pandora’s Cube owner jailed
He spent more than half of his time in prison in solitary confinement. Times, Sunday Times
In the short term we need to put an end to the riskiest practices, such as extreme confinement -- gestation crates and battery cages -- and the nontherapeutic feeding of antibiotics. Kathy Freston: E. Coli, Salmonella and Other Deadly Bacteria and Pathogens in Food: Factory Farms Are the Reason
That goniff who should be doing time, chopping rocks, making license plates, somehow slipped out of his apartment confinement and he's treating himself to a shore dinner. The New Yorker
She spent most of those years under house arrest or close confinement.
A stellarator is machine that is designed for the magnetic confinement of plasma.
The most severe penalty he could receive would be a suspension of pay, reduction in rank or confinement to the barracks.
The temporary freedom was also subject to the condition that he be back at his place of confinement by late Sunday afternoon.
He continued to regret the limitation on his career development imposed by what he saw as his confinement to Art teaching.
Vicar-general of Constance, and was condemned by the episcopal court in that place to the loss of his canonicate at Zurich and to lifelong confinement. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
Double heterostructure(DH)realizes the complete confinement of carriers and light, decreasing threshold current density substantially.
I've had the unenjoyable task of escorting chained prisoners from confinement to trial to prison.
Franklin alleges that while he was held in segregated confinement in the Yamhill County jail, an officer neglected to give him daily half-hour out-of-cell walks. Funny stuff
Still, as a stylised study of confinement and isolation it lodges in the memory. Times, Sunday Times
Under domestication there would be a suspension of the previous elimination of reduced breast-bones by natural selection (Weismann's panmixia), and a diminution of the parts concerned in flying might even be favoured, as lessened powers of _continuous_ flight would prevent pigeons from straying too far, and would fit them for domestication or confinement. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
Their love is the greatest a woman can hope for in life, and it is irrecoverable, except in brief moments during confinement, if a woman is allowed to give birth in her parents' house.
We attribute the rapid return to subsidence in the basin to the confinement of abnormally hot asthenospheric mantle in the zone of continental break-up to the NW as sea-floor spreading commenced.
It cannot be denied that the confinement of the feet in ballet shoes results in a mobilization of the body beyond ordinary limits of speed.
After a long confinement, it put the bloom back in her cheeks, Uncle Billy says.
Undue delay in preferring or prosecuting charges should be investigated with a view to prompt disposition of the case or, when appropriate, the release of the accused from arrest or confinement by competent authority. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
He painted in strong terms the incapacity, and what he called the vindictive and treacherous disposition, of the king; and declared, that to liberate him from the confinement under which he was now placed, would be to expose to certain death, a princess, who, by her wisdom and courage, had been the salvation of the state. Coronation Anecdotes
Needless to say, the ex-detainee himself had no clue as to the reasons behind his arrest and confinement.
She has been held in solitary confinement, and without charge. Times, Sunday Times
In the deepening dark, over endless cups of Barry tea, and slices of brack (this detail compounds the sense of ritual), she confides the details of a life lived out in fear and cowed confinement, and of dreams imploded.
Unusual punishment being outside the norm of accepted society: such as disembowelment, mental abuse, (such as solitary confinement for extended times) mental torment, (being housed where execution is to take place) just to name a few. The Death Penalty and the Constitution
Confinement and want of fresh air was beginning to tell on her health and spirits.
If the fuel burns rapidly enough, it is confined by its own inertia and requires no external confinement system.
Venter denied that a concept such as solitary confinement existed in South African jails.
This very insatiability of the photographing eye changes the terms of confinement in the cave, our world.
In squalid, solitary confinement, with only Grace Poole as her wardress, what wonder that she relapses?
Now the hulks are a disgrace to Europe, and a most incongruous appendage to a system that professes to cure by separate confinement. It Is Never Too Late to Mend
Much of this development has involved sugar-cane cultivation on sloping terrain in contrast to its confinement to flat alluvial areas prior to 1960.
The brother is irresponsible, more open-minded and free-spirited than his sister, but trapped in a kind of endless reaction against the confinement of his upbringing.
The horses are always eager for exercise after the close confinement of the stables.
He added: 'I was in solitary confinement for a time. The Sun
In the literary genre, Sutherland recommends the Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis's epistolatory novel of Christian apologetics; Letters to my Torturer, Iranian journalist Houshang Asadi's searing memoir of his 682 days in solitary confinement written in the form of letters to Brother Hamid, his torturer; and the remarkable website Letter to my Abuser, on which women can publish letters to their abusers. Gordon Ramsay: 'Dear Mother-in-law'
Frost, though chummy enough, is like a prisoner in solitary confinement.
In the mean time the wind had been driving the ice so fast off the land as to form for us a clear communication with the open water before seen to the eastward; and thus we were at length liberated from our confinement, after a close and tedious "besetment" of twenty-four days. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
In a physical confinement, the dimension and surface field would strongly influence block polymers self-assembly. As a result,(Sentence dictionary) the systems exhibit different phase behaviors as to those in the bulk.
There was a time when such confinement would have horrified me. Times, Sunday Times
Sylvia's mother decides to prove that Tom's sister cannot be released from confinement in a mental hospital.
While in prison, I was subject to extended periods of solitary confinement and medical neglect. Times, Sunday Times
Her skin was pale and seemed as thin as parchment after years of confinement in the windowless basement prison of the deranged handyman Priklopil. Times, Sunday Times
The front seats also have a longer cushion to provide more leg support and the backrest is wider at the shoulders - great for the well built motorist who doesn't like confinement.
He is like a man who has sentenced himself to a life of solitary confinement. Times, Sunday Times
If so, I am afraid I can now do nothing that will give me more disgrace than I have already so causelessly received by their indiscreet persecutions: and let me be whose I will, and do what I will, I shall never wipe off the stain which my confinement, and the rigorous usage I have received, have fixed upon me; at least in my own opinion. Clarissa Harlowe
Vasari states that in his old age Piero expressed his distaste for the sordid trappings of death, such as parasitic nurses, the visitations of weeping relatives, and confinement in dark sickrooms.
Claustrophilia is the enjoyment of confinement. Times, Sunday Times
So far, it has helped farmer Andy Muff of Ventura convert his family's small farrow-to-finish farm to a contract finishing operation replete with a 1,000-head "confinement nursery" and an additional 3,000 pig spaces. From Farm to Fork...and Discarded Carcasses in the Stream
He would almost certainly have been involved in it, had he not been at the time in solitary confinement as punishment for an earlier escape attempt. Times, Sunday Times
He was sentenced to 18 months in solitary confinement. Times, Sunday Times
Animals in captivity frequently suffer severe mental anguish in confinement.
In fact, seldom will confinement, detention be the better course to adopt.
She alleged she was kept in solitary confinement on occasions, deprived of food and sustenance, had her hair shorn and was stripped of her clothes on a number of occasions.
We ate them with cheer in the grace of confinement.
Also listed as ‘problem areas’ were lack of police accountability, overcrowded prisons and confinement of children in substandard or abusive correctional facilities.
He was sentenced to 18 months in solitary confinement. Times, Sunday Times
The United States was holding hundreds of alleged terrorists in a detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, some of them in solitary confinement and many designated as “illegal enemy combatants,” a term meant to exempt them from the rights and protections that were supposed to be accorded to prisoners of war. The Great Experiment
The film does not depict a monastery, but it transforms itself into a monastery, because a monastery is a place where, through the rhythm of time, which is very strict, and through [the monks '] confinement, the spiritual space is opened up for them. A Different Stripe:
The walls of these rooms are colored red, like Japanese lacquer, which contributes to the sense of narrowness and confinement, like you're dining inside an oversize bento box.
Some of those concerned were prosecuted as offenders, others were not: a great deal depended on individual circumstances, the nature of the referring agency, and the availability of funds to pay for such confinement.
The longer the confinement, the cushier the treatment. The Sun
A lot of the stress and fatigue we now feel is compounded by confinement in close quarters. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
Apoda_) which had been at that time in confinement nine years. In Nesting Time
The maples planted in the grassy border along the street were growing too large for their confinement, their roots buckling the uniform gray slabs of the sidewalk.
When a person has been duly convicted of a crime carrying a jail term, confinement is automatically authorized.
He has the chalk-stones in his understanding, and from being used to long confinement, cannot bear the slightest jostling or irregularity of motion.
Should they come up with something, then it's more likely to be a home confinement ‘curfew’ system, or one of the larger luggable units combining GPS and wireless.
Hannah barely listened as John went through Mattie's collapse and confinement in the sanatorium. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
It drew on sociological studies from several countries that describe confinement under sentence of death as exquisite psychological torture.
Her plans misfired, she was captured by Henry, and until his death in 1189 was kept in close confinement, carefully watched, in England.
Thus when I read of the possible annihilation of the elephant or the whale, or the pouring of oven cleaner or cosmetics into the eyes of live kittens, or the close confinement of pigs and calves in lightless pens, I feel myself confronted by human stupidity, which I recognize as an enemy. Political Animals
For the next seven weeks, Gobalkrishnan was held in solitary confinement and denied access to a lawyer or his family.
Ken suggested, seriously, that prisoners all be kept in solitary confinement.
The curse of modern child life in America is overeducation, overconfinement, overrestraint. Civics and Health
Thus, the Board may only direct the prisoner's release if satisfied that his confinement is no longer necessary for the protection of the public.
However, the Confinement had so disobliged me that it answered my Wife's Intentions; and I went away to St. Germain's, leaving Cloris to shift for her self in finding a new Gallant. The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
I've had the unenjoyable task of escorting chained prisoners from confinement to trial to prison.
The pyogenic vibrio, found in the uterus, or which was perhaps already in the body of the mother, since she suffered from chills before confinement, produced metastatic abscesses in the liver and, carried to the blood of the child, there induced one of the forms of infection called purulent, which caused its death. On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases
He did, however, return to the camp on a number of occasions over the course of the next four years, generally to receive punishment (i.e. being locked in solitary confinement for 21 days bread and water) for escaping from various work camps. Doug Nix
A third attempt also ended in failure and further periods in solitary confinement followed. Times, Sunday Times
Much of this development has involved sugar-cane cultivation on sloping terrain in contrast to its confinement to flat alluvial areas prior to 1960.
Art's emancipation from its autotelic confinement reappropriates ‘the product of art [which] is the tool for the direct or indirect social action.’
He is like a man who has sentenced himself to a life of solitary confinement. Times, Sunday Times
The stability of large - scale magnetohydrodynamic ( MHD ) modes is crucial to themagnetic confinement of toroidal plasmas.
Everybody, but especially people with a mental disorder, needs expert legal advice when faced with statutory confinement.
The solitary confinement cells and gallows are particularly chilling. The Sun
Dr. Faustus reveals man's frustration in realizing the high aspirations ina hostile moral order. And the confinement to time is the cruelest fact of man's condition.
He slipped his cock from its denim confinement and began to fondle himself as he watched the show. I.O.U.
Things started to tidy up by lunchtime, so I walked another 30 minutes back to the station, rode a still-delayed train to work and put in the usual afternoon's quota of desk-bound confinement.
Those conditions, imposed on an unconvicted prisoner who is also a British citizen, have included solitary confinement, repeated waking, enforced sleeping positions and being required every day to parade naked in his cell. Letters: Noxious silence on treatment of Manning
What is more, the validity of the continued confinement depends upon the persistence of such a disorder.
Following Argentina's return to democracy, Massera was condemned in 1985 to life in prison for three killings, the torture of 12 people and the illegal confinement of 69 others, but president Carlos Menem granted him and other coup leaders amnesty in what he called a gesture of reconciliation. CBC | Top Stories News
He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.
In 2005, police accused Dr. Renato Brun Del Re, 53, of kidnapping and forcible confinement after he was allegedly involved in kidnapping his daughter in an attempt to deprogram her from what he said at the time was a cult. Dominion Christian Centre found Gucci divine, charity watchdog discovers
Animals are "gentled" rather than being broken by methods that involve confinement, tie-downs and bucking after saddles are put on. HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
Asylum seekers, with tales of torture, rape and solitary confinement, can go to the end of the queue.
Furthermore, they are typically barred from areas where ministry is most needed: maximum security prisons, solitary confinement blocks, and twenty-three-hour lockdowns.
She has been held in solitary confinement, and without charge. Times, Sunday Times
Women who aspired to social prominence extended the confinement period before birth and the lying-in period afterward to testify to their affluence and physical delicacy.
The sound of chairs dragging across the floor filled the classroom; the mob of students stampeding their way to freedom from the confinements of school.
The song's titular scream provides the frozen emotional centerpiece for a feverish and insistent dirge, and a rare moment of absolute release amidst an album often marked by a chilling sense of emotional confinement.
Kipling, just released from his long confinement, like a boy out of school, was the life of the partyand when, one day, he found a woman aboard reading a copy of The Ladies Home Journal his joy knew no bounds; he turned in the most inimitable copy to the Tonic, describing the womans feelings as she read the different departments in the magazine. Going Home with Kipling, and as a Lecturer
He was imprisoned and put into solitary confinement until his death.
In his reply, Mr Goggins said: ‘Special accommodation may only be used for the temporary confinement of a violent or refractory prisoner, and not as punishment.’
By this is meant the farthest advance of the acrospire, when it is just bursting from its confinement, before it has effected its enlargement. The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
After that I was forbidden the sidewalk without supervision and sentenced to confinement in the backyard with Dons.
Brought to trial, he was condemned to death, immediately commuted to solitary confinement for life by De Gaulle.
The solitary confinement cells and gallows are particularly chilling. The Sun
They are self-conscious efforts to thwart the confinement of written language and its semantic limits.
It is a common practice of US jails to subject individuals on suicide watch to solitary confinement. Times, Sunday Times
These ladies, who had taken la Pigoreau in their coach to all the hearings, prompted her, in order to procrastinate, to file a fresh petition, in which she demanded the confrontment of all the witnesses to the pregnancy, and the confinement. Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
Much of this development has involved sugar-cane cultivation on sloping terrain in contrast to its confinement to flat alluvial areas prior to 1960.
And the reason for that visit was prompted because his immediate commander, his company commander, had placed him in what we call pretrial confinement. CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2009
He was confined to a wheelchair after that, and the confinement contributed to the diminishing of his body and spirit.
Through wire mesh, I watch the captive flocks pace out their confinement.
Previously, the effects of dielectric confinement have been investigated theoretically for the role they play in defining the optical properties of nanostructures, such as exciton binding energies, while the impact on electrical characteristics has largely been neglected partly due to the misconception that the relevant length scale still falls into the Nano Tech Wire
The paint strokes in some of the early grids are gestic and abbreviated, inside their rectilinear confinement. The Times Literary Supplement
Some stabled horses develop abnormal behaviors called stable vices from the stress of confinement.
His penalty was not confinement to Siberia or the Gulag, as may well have been the fate of Pavlik Marozov's "counterrevolutionary" parents. A Very Unattractive Comparison

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