It is all the more galling because when the by-election was called party strategists expressed confidence that they could win the seat following Chris Huhne's humiliating resignation and anticipated jail sentence for perverting the course of justice.
I had anticipated broken sentences and immediate frustration, but the Spaniards seemed quite capable of discussing their lives, jobs and families.
In the last 12 months we've seen the BBC showing live pictures of an empty courtroom in the US, eagerly anticipating the sentencing of already convicted kidnapper Ariel Castro – a story of interest to few if any in the UK.
Mr. Rondos's lawyer anticipates a sentence of 5 to 15 years.
As anticipated, participants avoided negative sentences in the spontaneous group (25% negative sentences, logistic regression z = −11, p<0.001) as well as in the instructed group (0.5% negative sentences).
But with that one sentence he anticipated many of the thoughts his brother astronauts are expressing nearly thirty years later.
Holder expressed concern that the growing use of aggregate data to anticipate outcomes at sentencing "may exacerbate unwarranted and unjust disparities that are already far too common in our criminal justice system and in our society".
(That's not a sentence I had anticipated writing at the beginning of this year).
In matching a few inputted keywords to its sentence database Ginger's algorithm is taking a big logic leap by anticipating where the sentence is actually going, and also generating some very formal-sounding suggestions — which can also steer the sentence logic way off course.
Until that moment I had been fully anticipating my prison sentence.
