Sentence examples for a split sentence from inspiring English sources

"It's usually a split sentence, because then there's something that can be hung over them, the possibility of release at some point with supervision … I would strongly suspect that especially judge Williams would hold open the possibility of modifying a sentence".

"So if you do a split sentence, you're only getting six months in jail, and a longer term in the community [for example], which would be better, and decreasing overall jail population".

"I feel kind of dumb standing here asking for a split sentence," said defense attorney John Cantrell, who said his client was shot in the face during a prior burglary and had promised himself he never would be in the same situation again.

In our implementation, for a given split sentence, if its previous line in the original raw text was an empty line, the value of the layout feature was 1, or otherwise it was 0. Take the line starting with the section "Name:" of Table 1 as an example.

She decided on the split sentence, saying she expects Calderon to serve the first five months in a federal facility with adequate medical services and another five months at home with an electronic monitor locked to his ankle.

For example, a sentence splitter from LingPipe (18) is used to split sentences in a genetic-related abstract.

Each file is given in a stand-off XML format with split sentences, annotation of known proteins, parts of speech (POS), and syntactic dependency tree information.

Briefly, we first extracted a total of 7,719 disease records from the OMIM database and split sentences in the TX and the CS fields of these records into words.

According to Brandon Martin, a research associate at the Public Policy Institute of California who studies corrections, two new techniques arose from this: split sentencing and flash incarceration.

Diana Zuniga, representing a coalition of groups opposed to the jail plan, said the number of county jail inmates will also be impacted by the passage of Proposition 47, which will reduce penalties for drug possession and other nonviolent crimes, and the increased use of "split sentencing," in which inmates are given shorter jail sentences, followed by mandatory probation.

According to a recent report by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, the re-arrest rate for offenders who receive "split" sentences with jail and state supervision is nearly 8percentt higher than for those who do "straight" time — usually a longer sentence, but with fewer post-release restrictions.