With consular assistance, Mr. Leal would likely never have been convicted, let alone sentenced to death.
The words in a Torah scroll are written in long columns of bunched-together words with little-to-no space between letters, let alone sentences (and a total lack of punctuation).
As a member of the LGBT Caucus and a longstanding champion of equal rights for LGBT persons, I am deeply troubled by the very notion that someone could be discriminated against -- let alone sentenced to death -- for their sexual orientation.
Some linguists grant it the separate part-of-speech status of "sentence word," because, as I noted, it can serve as a stand-alone sentence.
Although these are complete sentences, they cannot be used as stand-alone sentences in your paper.
While copy and pasting sentences together is a fast way to create an abstract, you should add transitions to make those stand-alone sentences make sense as a whole paragraph.
Many also dread getting sucked into a time consuming judicial process full of endless paperwork that is unlikely to lead to a prosecution, let alone a sentence.
For American prisoners, huge numbers of whom are serving sentences much longer than those given for similar crimes anywhere else in the civilized world — Texas alone has sentenced more than four hundred teen-agers to life imprisonment — time becomes in every sense this thing you serve.
"Comma splice" is a term used for the linking of two independent clauses -- that is, grammatical units that contain a subject and a verb and could stand alone as sentences -- with a comma.
Splice Girls, and Boys "Comma splice" is a term used for the linking of two independent clauses — that is, grammatical units that contain a subject and a verb and could stand alone as sentences — with a comma.
