"It is simply not the case that the sentencing guidelines are merely a volume that the district court reads with academic interest in the course of sentencing," she wrote.
The subject of the images is time, in exactly the same way that a writer can describe a single moment of feeling, an instant of vision, or a flicker of memory through the course of sentences and paragraphs.
Previously known as a man who could change his mind over the course of a sentence, Burnham has had a reinvention Madonna would envy.
China is mentioned in the course of a sentence, and Russia and India – two radically contrasting experiments in marrying democracy with nationality – are not discussed at all.
If you search for it in the book, you will find a single mention in the text, where it is cited in the course of a sentence listing four exceptions to continuing global population growth between the years 1851-1871.
There's Kerry Weaver Laura Inness), a doctor and administrator who began as a one-note villain but has blossomed into one of the most original characters on television: a bureaucratic climber whose pragmatism can shift from admirable to corrupt in the course of a sentence.
For a long time, Healy's book featured in the small collection that I held dear to my heart and that accompanied me as I was transferred during the course of my sentence from cell to cell and from prison to prison up and down the country.
"We were looking for work that was done with prisoners during the course of their sentence which was actually about changing the way they thought," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Over the course of my sentence, I spent a combined year in the box, and that's where I got my best writing in.
Charles Plumb, his words coming fast, his voice rising and falling along the course of a sentence as rhapsodically as a television evangelist's, is telling an audience about his first days of torture, emaciation and self-pity in a tiny North Vietnamese prison cell.
