| For example, Pope Silverius was deposed by force and died in a penal colony. |
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| And even in Gaelic tales, the island earned fame for being the penal colony where clan chiefs put their enemies in exile. |
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| On an interstellar penal colony, a group of criminal aliens steal a spaceship and chart a course for Earth. |
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| The media have conferred on him the image of the victimised rebel, who was transported to a penal colony as the price of his principled insubordination. |
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| We have learned today that this same individual has been found guilty and sentenced to four years detention in a Russian penal colony. |
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| In January 2002, the prisoners escaped from the high-security Novo Ulyanovsk penal colony. |
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| He was sentenced to two years in a strict-regime penal colony on 30 May 1999 and was not allowed to appeal his sentence. |
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| Degraded and condemned to hard labour for life, Dreyfus was sent to the penal colony in Guyana on Devil's Island while proclaiming his innocence. |
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| It was only towards the end of the 18th century that the British begin to colonize this fifth continent by building a penal colony. |
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| The 600 forced labourers of the penal colony at Brest, condemned to forced labour for life, were encouraged to work by the promise of a pardon. |
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| Uzbek Government had no objection to members of the Committee visiting that penal colony if they so wished. |
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| Krivov was sentenced to serve four years at a general regime penal colony for his fight for freedom and human rights. |
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| This was especially so in a penal colony where many of the convicts were hardened criminals and many of the free settlers were themselves ex-convicts and impulsive men. |
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| The Tarutao Archipel is situated in the far south of Thailand whose main island, a former penal colony for political prisoners, is now a fantastically well-preserved National Maritime Park. |
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| Befitting a penal colony, Coiba is not easy to reach. |
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| I'd think about being the warden at a penal colony for smart-aleck nurses I've known. |
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| Many offenders thus stayed in the colony as free persons, and might obtain employment as jailers or other servants of the penal colony. |
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| Timberlake Wertenbaker's play Our Country's Good, based on Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker, is set in the first Australian penal colony. |
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| In it, Duteil talks about his great great uncle, Colonel Dreyfus, wrongly accused at the end of the 19th century in a murky affair of espionage mingled with anti-Semitism, and imprisoned in a penal colony in French Guyana. |
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| Australia Day commemorates the arrival of Captain Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet, comprising 11 ships and around 1,350 people, who arrived at Botany Bay between 18 and 20 January 1788 to set up a penal colony for Britain. |
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| As a British colony, it was used by that nation as a penal colony and eventually settled by those sent there under penal servitude when they were released. |
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| Banished BBC2, 9pm Drama about the British convicts and soldiers of a penal colony in Australia in the 18th century. |
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| Set in the early years of Sydney's penal colony this novel is presented as the diary of a young female convict, Mary Beckwith. |
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| These women came from a penal colony for repeat offenders. |
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| The penal colony administration refuses to hear me. |
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| Later, when the Dutch used the island as a penal colony, new species were introduced to the island. |
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| In January of 2010, the Chelyabinsk regional court sentenced Sergei Kharin, a deputy of the Karabash municipal district, to five years in a maximum-security penal colony. |
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| By 1614 the British had planted a penal colony on the site, and in 1621 two Englishmen claimed Table Bay on behalf of King James I, but this action was not ratified. |
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| Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing. |
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| The island was also used as a penal colony in the 19th century. |
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| In which ocean is the former French penal colony of Devil's Island? |
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| He was sent to Devil's Island, a French penal colony in Guiana. |
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