penal servitude in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

penal servitude in the PONS Dictionary

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Four of the poachers' ringleaders were arrested and each subsequently sentenced to deportation and fourteen years of penal servitude for manslaughter.
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Yet it was imperative to attract good quality recruits by ensuring the private soldier's life was better than a kind of penal servitude.
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He was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.
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An emancipist was free to own land and was no longer subject to penal servitude.
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Eventually their sentence was commuted to penal servitude.
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Forms of sentence involving penal labour have included penal servitude and imprisonment with hard labour.
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The sentences were commuted to penal servitude for life.
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He was found guilty and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude.
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He famously described his early formal education as a form of penal servitude presided over by a rabble of screaming and strapping spinsters.
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This law prohibited deliberate listening to any foreign radio station under penal servitude.
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