Sentence examples for deciding sentence from inspiring English sources

The multiple versions of "Dorian Gray" — the earliest surviving manuscript, which is at the Morgan Library; the typescript sent to Lippincott's, which Harvard University Press has just made available in an "uncensored" edition; the published Lippincott's text; and the expanded book publication of 1891 — show Wilde deciding, sentence by sentence, just how far he would go.

Also unclear is whether the decision will give judges more or less power in deciding sentences.

In a ruling in March, in another corruption case involving chemical firm Innospec, Lord Justice Thomas said the SFO had no power to strike plea bargains and that judges were responsible for deciding sentences.

Judges have considered their own disgust, the criminal's disgust and the disgustingness of the crime to decide sentences.

Third, how should the appropriate amount of punishment be determined: how should sentencers go about deciding what sentence to impose?

To do that, they convinced the Florida prosecutor assigned to the case to allow them to use some restorative justice models in deciding a sentence.

Soon other organised victim groups were demanding preferential treatment: hence the Criminal Justice Act 2003 requires courts to consider disability or sexual orientation as aggravating factors when deciding the sentence for any offence.

Mr. Penry's lawyers are asking the court to consider whether the jury was given the opportunity to consider the issues of mental retardation and child abuse as mitigating factors in deciding to sentence Mr. Penry to death.

A court in South Africa is deciding what sentence to give the athlete Oscar Pistorius for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

Even apart from the problems above, retributivists have yet to construct a nonarbitrary way of deciding what sentence the guilty offender deserves as punishment.

Even worse, given an arithmetical sentence (i.e., a sentence not containing T) that can neither be proved nor disproved in PA, one can find a consistent T-sentence that decides this sentence (McGee 1992).