But there have been abrupt changes as well: the sit-ins, the picket lines, the bus strikes -- all of these were unheard-of even ten years ago.

A Virginia judge a while back cited a Roman jurist to the effect that ten years might be a reasonable length of time for such a change.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

in three months the Army spent three-quarters as much as had been expended on the `` big Ditch '' in ten years.

Never hearing from him again, I remembered the little boy of whom I had had such doubts when he was ten years old.

`` As a writer, by what have I been obsessed these last ten years, if not by mankind??

It has not been extirpated by ten years of Communist depersonalization.

For ten years a small group of European and U.S. critics has been calling attention to the half-forgotten Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, who died 42 years ago at the age of 28.

Now, if I were you I would just plan to repair the old church so it would last for five or ten years.

Not seeing her dark intelligent face, one would have gauged the voice as that of a Westwood Village matron, ten years out of Iowa.

It was not as though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years, not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; ;

`` He's ten years younger than Ernest.

That house was ten years off his life let himself.

Nothing in all the preceding years had had the power to bring me closer to a knowledge of profound sorrow than the breakup of camp, the packing away of my camp uniforms, the severing of ties with the six or ten people I had grown most to love in the world.

The plan called for divestiture by Du Pont of its 63,000,000 shares of General Motors stock by equal annual distributions to its stockholders, as a dividend, over a period of ten years.

that the tremendous volume of General Motors stock hanging over the market for ten years would hamper the efforts of General Motors and other automobile manufacturers to raise equity capital ; ;

And trailers for boats are not what they started out to be ten years ago.

This first test is being leased for ten years but future projects will require at least 15 years.

`` Well, for ten years I've been murdering women.

For indeed it seemed incredible that anyone could go on committing murder for ten years and not get caught at it, even in Hollywood.

`` I seem to remember '', he said, `` that in an interview ten years ago you gave humor and comedy five years to live.

* 1993 – 450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners ( for tuberculosis ) against their religious beliefs.

Eventually he spends ten years in a Chinese prison before being released and embarking on a solution to the mystery that has haunted him his entire life: the fate of his mother who disappeared at the beginning of WWII.

Among the forefathers of the new journalism movement, Thompson said in the February 15th, 1973 issue of Rolling Stone, " If I'd written the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people — including me — would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today.

The criminal charge of " Provoking ethnic, racial and religion based animosity and intolerance " carries a minimum six months prison term and a maximum of ten years.

* 1951 – A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on a charge of espionage.

Although some officials in the FBI and the Department of Justice opposed the length of the penalty, Whitacre was sentenced to ten and a half years in Federal prison — three times longer than his price-fixing conspirators.

Milken was sentenced to ten years in prison and permanently barred from the securities industry by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

However, if the victim's family pardons the criminal, in addition to the sharia punishment the criminal would normally receive a tazir prison sentence ( such as ten to twenty years in prison ) for crimes such as " intentional loss of life ", " tazir assault and battery " " disturbance of the peace ", and so forth.

The agents responsible pled guilty to manslaughter as part of a plea deal and were sentenced to ten years in prison, but secretly released early to France under an agreement between the two countries ' governments.

" The factory worker was eventually sentenced to ten years in prison, where he died soon after " without any apparent cause.

Zinoviev was sentenced to ten years in prison and Kamenev to five.

Kamenev was charged separately in early 1935 in connection with the Kremlin Case and, although he refused to confess, was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Debs was sentenced on November 18, 1918, to ten years in prison.

The Criminal Justice Act of 1967 introduced suspended prison sentences and allowed a ten to two majority vote for jury decisions.

In 1993 Küssel was repeatedly convicted on charges of " NS-Wiederbetätigung " ( re-engagement in national socialism ) under the Austrian anti-Nazi law ( Verbotsgesetz 1947 ) and sentenced to ten years of prison.

The maximum punishment for trafficking or possession with the intent of trafficking is ten years in prison.

Sentenced on October 21, 2007 to ten years in prison for a US $ 2. 2 billion fraud case that drove the Caribbean nation into an economic crisis in 2003.

In the same year, he was arrested, tried by the French colonial authorities and sentenced to ten years in prison.

The 2005 study neither War nor Peace: International Comparisons of Children and Youth in Organized Armed Violence studied ten cities worldwide and found that in eight of them, " street gangs had strong links to prison gangs ".

On 30 October 1939, most of the group were sentenced to ten years in prison.

He spent much of his life exiled from his homeland of Italy and in total spent more than ten years in prison.

On February 17, 2005, Fabens was the location where a nearby border incident occurred that made national headlines, when border patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were convicted and sentenced to prison terms in excess of ten years for shooting Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, an illegal alien and drug smuggler who was unarmed when he was shot.

Zhang was sentenced to ten years in prison, with Chiang quickly granting amnesty but nevertheless keeping Zhang in custody.