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Usage examples of "prison term".
He couldn't endure another trial, or the prospect of a 13-year prison term.
It was agreed that the local authorities could handle individuals who would prefer a long prison term to military service.
On November 19, 1989, Ron began a two-year federal prison term for importing traditional Hindu smoking pipes (as he had for the past 15 years with the approval of Customs).
Yet at the same time he saw that her interest in him was palpable and Wyatt Gillette knew that it didn't matter that he was a skinny, obsessive geek with a year left on a prison term.
He'd recover fully, the British Army surgeon concluded, and so could enjoy full physical health during the lifelong prison term that surely awaited him.
The assassin would be tried locally and doubtless sent away for a lengthy prison term, but at the very least Murray and the Bureau wanted him caged in Marion, Illinois - the maximum-security federal prison for really troublesome offenders.
His client led away to begin his prison term, Fiske packed his briefcase and left the courtroom.
I noticed that I'd bypassed the word 'embezzlement,' as though it might be rude to name the crime that resulted in her prison term.
So if you were the kind of person who might want to commit a crime, the incentives were lining up in your favor: a slimmer likelihood of being convicted and, if convicted, a shorter prison term.
Since I couldn't pay the fare that meant a prison term, and on Oberon that meant the gravity gang.