Sentence examples for a conventional sentence from inspiring English sources

Look for her to impose a conventional sentence within the bounds of her lawful discretion, perhaps seven or eight years, and to make it run consecutive to Ellis's 47 months.

On the other hand, I can understand the preference that others have for the device of beginning a crime story with a more or less conventional sentence or two, then snapping the reader back in his chair with an abbreviated sentence that is used like a blunt instrument.

Another dilemma, he said, rested in the fact that because none of the counts against Mr. Madoff carried a sentence of life imprisonment (indeed, none carried more than 20 years), he could not impose a conventional life sentence.

This is what the conventional sentence meaning plus contextual processes of disambiguation, precisification of vague expressions and reference fixing provide.

Conventional sentence meaning contributes crucially to what is said, which is considered essentially different from implicatures; but now we have the result that some elements of conventional meaning do not contribute to what is said but to implicatures (albeit conventional).

Broadman, 40, who sports a neatly trimmed beard and is just over 5 feet tall, hinted at his judicial philosophy in 1986, when he said that as a judge "protection of the public is something that's paramount in my mind". Although fellow Superior Court Judge Robert Van Auken disagrees with Broadman's implant decision, he says conventional sentencing for child abuse doesn't seem to be working.

With this opening sentence, Benfey seems to promise a conventional memoir.

A conventional answer is gas.

Books with a conventional plot?

A conventional quest begins.

It's not a conventional chronological narrative.