Sentence examples for conviction down from inspiring English sources

Changes to legislation last year also halved the threshold for a visa cancellation owing to criminal conviction down to a 12-month prison sentence.

No American soldier has been executed since 1961, and military prosecutors showed that they would take no chance of fumbling details that could jeopardize any conviction down the line.

Leonardo Alcivar, the Police Department's director of press operations, said yesterday that the statements were given with the understanding of immunity from prosecution and that making them public "could hamper the city's ability to obtain a conviction down the road" in future cases.

Joe said later he was prepared to risk death that weird Filipino morning, scheduled to suit American television; I doubt it is a judgment he would have held with conviction down the years, as diabetes and cataracts drained him of his physical aura; Ali had no such attachment to the battle – but, then again, he won.

It was the seventh conviction handed down by the tribunal.

After the second conviction, handed down last month as the police were clubbing protesters on a street outside the courtroom, Mr. Khodorkovsky will remain behind bars until 2017.

Al-Araibi was detained by Thai officials on the basis of an erroneous Interpol red notice over a vandalism conviction handed down in absentia at a Bahrain trial.

Lula's conviction handed down in 2017 by Sérgio Moro, a crusading anti-corruption judge, ruled that the firebrand former union leader had been given a renovated seaside apartment by a construction company as part of a sprawling bribe scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras.

And when it was time, Aurich and members of the families of other victims came to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, to see the conviction handed down.

Yeung, who has lodged an appeal against his conviction, stepped down from his positions at the club in February last year, but remains the major shareholder.

Dressed in costume designer Ann Closs-Farley's character-defining executive chic, the experienced actors, each with an impressive body of stage work to commend them, play what turn out to be roles-within-roles-within roles with enjoyable conviction, right down to the play's one last sly surprise.