‘We accept that courts should consider each of these dimensions whenever a sentence for rape is imposed.’.‘He was also handed a 10-year concurrent sentence for robbery.’.‘The magistrates decided against sending the boy to crown court for a harsher sentence.’.‘Soldiers who turn themselves in by February, 2004, earn lenient sentences.’.‘He was ordered to complete a remaining eight month sentence for that offence before starting the latest jail term.’.‘A death sentence was commuted to life in prison, then cut to ten years.’.‘But the Supreme Court sympathetically commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment.’.‘He will be sentenced this week and faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.’.‘No Greek police officer has served a custodial sentence for crimes committed while serving.’.‘Some Australian states impose a mandatory minimum sentence for wilful murder.’.‘He could have received a maximum jail sentence of 81 years for these crimes.’.‘He received the maximum fine and was given a suspended two-year prison sentence.’.‘Some of them have been tortured or given heavy prison sentences for this offence alone.’.‘He was found guilty of nine counts of his indictment and sentenced to life imprisonment (his sentences, ranging from ten years to life run concurrently).’.‘Some US states, such as Hawaii, have far more lenient laws than Texas in such cases and would allow treatment rather than a prison sentence or death penalty.’.‘Once the prison sentence imposed by the court has been served, one cannot say that the sentencing court had it in mind that the offender should be detained unless it was shown that he was no longer a danger.’.‘He had also received separate suspended jail sentences for fraud offences.’.‘slander of an official carried an eight-year prison sentence’.
English to english dictionary with sentences series#
1.1 Logic A series of signs or symbols expressing a proposition in an artificial or logical language.‘For example, it apparently tells you not to end sentences with prepositions.’.‘The first sentence of paragraph 40 is accordingly to be treated as an admission.’.‘The first two sentences of paragraph 100 would certainly have had to be revised.’.‘Can I finish a sentence in this paragraph without using a question mark?’.‘I was about to finish a sentence with a preposition there, something I never do.’.‘You can almost feel her carefully constructed outline unfolding as you proceed through the words, sentences, paragraphs, and pages.’.‘Well-made typefaces are designed with consistent spacing in mind: between letters, words, sentences, and lines.’.‘I tried to talk but I couldn't quite concentrate on single words or forming complete sentences at the moment.’.‘Words, phrases, sentences, and doctrinal teachings were subjected to close analysis and correct definitions and interpretations were recorded.’.‘Then he has the nerve to put a exclamation mark after the sentence!’.‘And in cases of that sort, everyone has always agreed that such words can end a sentence.’.‘But the sentences in question don't have to be long and cumbersome like the ones above.’.‘It's quite different from English, too, in that it puts the verb at the end of the sentence and uses postpositions instead of prepositions.’.‘Subjects select words to complete the sentences from a list provided.’.‘What I wanted to teach these people was not to decipher words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, paragraphs into pages or even pages into books.’.‘Both the words and the ways they are combined into sentences convey meaning.’.‘Traditional grammars say that sentences express complete thoughts.’.‘The key word in the last sentence is in quotation marks because, as Tolstoy made clear in War and Peace, there are as many truths about a given battle, after it, as there were participants in it.’.‘A slight lift in the voice at the end of a sentence changes statement to question.’.