Thus, the positivist analysis of a science or any other body of knowledge distinguished between a base of bare "protocol sentences," or descriptions of experience, and a superstructure of theoretical sentences that serve to systematize and predict the patterns such experience may take.
We can only assume you believe criminal sanctions should be proportional to the harm caused by the person being sentenced, and by that measure, Mr. Emery should receive the barest minimum sentence.
Her bare-bones sentences recorded lockups after meals, a bathroom with no privacy and a room crowded with warring roommates.
After a bare eight-month sentence, he spent the decades after WWII speculating on real estate and collecting works by Nicolaes Maes, Francisco Goya, Jan Sluyters, and others, which filled 20 rooms of his 40-room mansion outside Amsterdam.
I could have used more vivisection — the laying bare of individual sentences, and the probing of syntactical tissue — but no one could deny how densely the author is steeped in his theme.
It's a sad book: a particularly melancholy orgy scene springs to mind, as does the final sentence — "their bare genitals stared stupidly and sadly at the white sand".
"These sentences lay bare the absurdity of Iran's criminal justice system, which brands individuals as criminals merely for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression through making music and films.
Beyond a bare announcement that the sentences had been carried out, no Soviet citizen is permitted to know how or where the eight men, on whom the Soviet state had showered honors and titles during their lifetime, met their death, other than that they were shot, as the law requires.
There is another context where kuai 1 can be used in its bare form, namely when the sentence is in its interrogative form, as shown in i.
In this memoir of divorce, loss and shiny tin linings, every sentence is stripped to an essence that lays bare the really important while skirting the bitter recriminations that so often accompany a story of a marriage failed (her word).
