In February, the federal Fish and Wildlife Service had effectively sentenced hundreds of wolves to death by lifting the protections provided by the Endangered Species Act.
Where once politicians from Downing Street to the White House lauded the ideals and actions of the 2011 revolutionaries, now they were rendered mute as Egypt's first democratically elected president was effectively sentenced to a life behind bars.
Nice people like us had effectively sentenced Justine Sacco to a year's punishment for the crime of some poor phraseology in a tweet – as if some clunky wording had been a clue to her secret inner evil.
The implication: Considering that the BBC has agreed to freeze most of its public funding for six years, effectively sentencing itself to a 16 percent budget cut through 2017, it surely could have looked harder at its staffing needs for the event.
Crucially, like so many of the people who catalysed the postwar British arts scene, he was gay, but also fantastically uncomfortable about it: to quote his friend, fellow Cheltenham old boy and biographer Gavin Lambert, he effectively sentenced himself "to grievous psychological stress for life".
Russia may have imposed a moratorium on capital punishment in 1996, yet on Tuesday it effectively sentenced Yukos the country's once-magnificent oil firm to death.
The most disturbing part to O'Donnell was the fact that Carroll had effectively sentenced Ebner "on the side of the road," based entirely on seemingly subjective observations.
On Wednesday, a judge ordered a suspension of the measure, which would have banned pit bull adoptions — effectively sentencing the numerous pit bulls in city shelters to death.
Graham notes how the character of Tuvix was written to encourage audience sympathies, yet was still effectively sentenced to death in contravention of what she describes as the "exemplary Star Trek values [of] sentience, self-determination, and personhood".
Now, years after those first, world-shattering conversations, and a year after Larry Nassar was effectively sentenced to life behind bars, we know that my baby girls are just two of many.
