It is an odd room, with carvings all around it in which sacred and profane subjects are most curiously mingled: here John the Baptist in the chief scenes of his life, even to imprisonment in a wooden cage, into which the sacristan slips a delighted expository hand, and there Nero, ...
(colloquial) A life sentence; a term of imprisonment of a convict until his or her death. (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when a mistake is made. noun The state that follows birth, and precedes death; the state of being alive and living. noun (heading...
What people were ready to record in that first rush of oral history in the 1990s were the facts of their repression, the details of arrest, imprisonment, and rehabilitation, rather than the damage to their inner lives, the painful memories of personal betrayal and lost relationships that had ...
when Joseph Stalin and his supporters gained control of the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks). It rejected the notions, common among Marxists at the time, of world revolution as a prerequisite for building socialism in Russia (in favor of the concept of Socialism in One Country...
Forced to wear the pink triangle and condemned under Paragraph 175 of the 1871 Reich Criminal Code, which made homosexual relations a criminal offense, at least 10,000 gays suffered imprisonment and deplorable treatment in at least eleven concentration camps. The legal noose continued to tighten ...
But there's a catch – you won't be sitting comfortably in your chair with a glass of wine. The fourth wall between actors and audience will be broken and you will be taken through an immersive experience of arrest, sentencing, imprisonment and, eventually, a very real and chilling sense...
510 (1968), the Court observed that “one of the most important functions any jury can perform” in exercising its discretion to choose “between life imprisonment and capital punishment” is “to maintain a link between contemporary community values and the penal system.” Id., at 519. ...
first-person impressions of many in the top Soviet leadership, and accounts of the author's increasingly dangerous work as a journalist and spy, to say nothing of her work on behalf of prisoners, her two arrests, and her eventual ten-month-long imprisonment, including in the infamous Lubyanka...
… I understood because I started to comprehend the history of the German division and about the peoples’ imprisonment. And clearly, if I had not been able to travel for the last 40 years, I would also be angry.Footnote 119 While an anti-migrant mood in capitalist societies often centers...
Discusses the arrest of former Tajik Internal Affairs Minister Yakub Salimov in Russia. Request of Tajik authorities for the imprisonment of Salimov; Claim on attempt to stage armed revolt.Current Digest of the Post-Soviet PressDubnovArkady