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  • verb Present participle of imprison.

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Examples

  • You could just as easily have a bumper sticker saying "Why do we imprison people who imprison people to show that imprisoning is wrong?"

    What's Wrong with REVENGE?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Jeremiah's "chains" for a time were due to the negligence of those to whom he had been committed; or else to Nebuzara-dan's wish to upbraid the people with their perverse ingratitude in imprisoning Jeremiah [Calvin]; hence he addresses the people (ye ... you) as much as Jeremiah (Jer 40: 2, 3).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Actually, it's the appearance of "perfection," albeit hypocritical, flawed, dishonest, and imprisoning, that is heavily promoted by nearly every religious Muslim American social circle I've met.

    Wajahat Ali: Seeking Perfection In Ramadan Wajahat Ali 2011

  • He had toyed with the notion of imprisoning them together -- but Chintithpit-ma would surely kill the man.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • A: I would repeal it and seek to prosecute, if possible, those who authored and promoted the idea of imprisoning and fining law abiding Americans for refusing to be subjugated under this Socialist/Marxist agenda masquerading as law.

    The Shad Plank 2010

  • Even in Whetstone's old story this peculiar vein of moralising comes to the surface: even there, we notice the tendency to dwell on mixed motives, the contending issues of action, the presence of virtues and vices alike in unexpected places, on "the hard choice of two evils," on the "imprisoning" of men's "real intents."

    Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Walter Pater 1866

  • Page 83 on our commerce, such as imprisoning our seamen, as well as by the crime of seizing our free citizens and depriving them of their liberty; and can we obtain the least redress?

    Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide. Written from a Statement of Facts Made by Himself. With Remarks Upon the Remedy for Slavery. By Charles Stearns 1849

  • Simply as a hint to the American anti-war liberals, this order is coming only after Blackwater started targeting Shiites and not any time before, when Blackwater was massacring Sunnis in the Sunni majority areas across the board, as well as targeting Sunnis selectively in the Shiite majority areas and helping the Shiites cleanse the latter areas of all Sunnis and/or 'imprisoning' those who refused to move out, in Israeli type Bantustans, concrete walls and Blackwater manned checkpoints included for conformity.

    Will Iraq's Blackwater Ban Raise Troop Levels in Baghdad? 2007

  • Because psychiatrists routinely violate people’s civil rights, human rights and constitutional rights such as imprisoning innocent people without court trial or public hearing ”involuntary commitment”, and subjecting them to cruel and unusual punishments or tortures such as forced drugging, electroconvulsive brainwashing, psychosurgery, solitary confinement, “chemical restraints”, and 4-point or 5-point restraints.

    Rape and Abuse at Oregon State Hospital 2004

  • "imprisoning" millions of Palestinians .... [snip]

    American Thinker 2010

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