Sentence examples for back sentences from inspiring English sources

The new approach is being prompted in part by the Obama administration, which previously supported legislation that scaled back sentences for crimes involving crack cocaine.

Sentencing reform Californians voted to roll back sentencing laws, loosening punishments for certain crimes in an effort to curb the state's prison population.

Haslett writes precise, pulled-back sentences that go down without a fuss.

Although Mamet is known in most of his plays, and in the two male roles in Speed-the-Plow, for long speeches, loop-back sentences and conversations that begin mid-flow, Karen is given an unusually gentle introduction.

The convicted man, Selwyn Days, 39, of Mount Vernon, was given back-to-back sentences of 25 years to life in the 1996 baseball bat bludgeoning of Archie Harris, 79, in his Eastchester home and the murder of his home health aide, Betty Ramcharan, 35, whose throat was cut.

But in the end, divorced and serving back-to-back sentences, only the Beanie Babies are still around for Tom Noe.

"When's the next train back?" The sentences that emerged from his mouth were flayed, generic, like lines from black-and-white movies.

Todd Clear, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, estimates that by eliminating imprisonment across the nation for technical parole violations, reducing the length of parole supervision and ratcheting back prison sentences to their 1988 levels, the United States could reduce its prison population by 50 percent.

A new report by the Vera Institute of Justice also shows that at least 29 states have taken steps to roll back mandatory sentences since 2000.

We then joined back consecutive sentences where the period was sandwiched by single capital letters, some specific words such as 'etc.' and 'et al.', or by digits such as '0.05'0.05

But the case could be appealed, which could set back the sentence by several years.