Like Nelson Mandela for 27 years

Usage examples of jailed.

For some reason the sheriff failed to mention that his deputies had already jailed one of the most prominent Chicano militants in the nation.

The outlaws are jailed on $3,000 bond for aggravated assault and attempted rape.

Their fast mind and its still more quick fingers obtained that Julie was so capable for both things which, by great which outside the frequency whereupon sent it to a new home for orphans, immediately acquired certain popularity and respect between its pairs, until the point of which, some months before, a group of boys condescendió to demonstrate the different techniques to him that used to rob cars, putting them in march by means of bridges, a demonstration that she had like result that all the group was jailed, including a Julie, who was only an observer.

And of single thinking that as much beauty and intelligence had remained jailed during five long years, a knot in the throat formed to him.

To help an innocent not to return to be jailed was not illegal nor immoral, and it was not either a treason to the faith that her family deposited in her.

This is the horror of American politics today -- not that Richard Nixon and his fixers have been crippled, convicted, indicted, disgraced and even jailed -- but that the only available alternatives are not much better.

But we realized we were going to have to do it -- or get jailed immediately -- so Ralph just hung on and we took off toward the darkness and the open sea in this dinghy with all these people yelling at us -- and Ralph still in a terrible psychological condition.

For all we knew he could turn into a vicious monster and have us all jailed for sedition.

On the basis of his own crudely edited transcripts, there is enough evidence on those tapes to have Nixon impeached, convicted and jailed for his own protection before the first football Sunday in September.

The fat spic for all seasons was jailed once again, this time on what the press called a "high speed drug bust.

For if it hadn't been for that they'd a jailed us till them Englishmen's baggage come -- and then -- the penitentiary, you bet!

He was later jailed for a large number of outstanding traffic citations.

Once jailed, they have to post bond to get out, and unlike the solid citizen who is a jobholder or property owner or at least has friends who can sign for the amount, the Angels have no recourse but their friendly bondsman.

What­ever happened -- whether he was jailed, killed or forced to flee anonymously -- he exists in outlaw legend as a rollicking, unpre­dictable monster who always prevailed.

Towering Tiny and two others were jailed, and a cop suffered a broken leg in melee.