+ After a drastic sentencing two weeks ago, writers, artists, and activists across the world are standing up for Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh.
A new experimental program had gone into effect up in Greene County, in which first offenders facing up to five-year sentences got drastic reductions in return for entering a highly disciplined, boot-camp-like program.
BANGKOK — Prosecutors and defense lawyers asked for drastic changes this week in the sentence given to the former commandant of the Khmer Rouge's main prison.
Studies show that reduced sentences do not cause drastic increases in crime, he said, and many counties are working on alternative programs.
President Obama announced his drastic commutation on her 35-year sentence Tuesday.
The rueful tone, the undeniable gravity, the way the sinuous sentences pivot toward matters of drastic reality were not-so-strangely comforting in that historic moment in September , 2001
One is that in light of naturally occurring cases of self-reference, his ruling Liar sentences syntactically not well-formed seems overly drastic.
But French law puts far stricter limits on sentencing, and discrepancies between maximum terms and sentences as they are handed down are often less drastic.
Mr. Bello's lawyer, Steven M. Statsinger, said he would be prepared to suggest a "less drastic" alternative to a TV ban when his client is sentenced again.
When they were asked about the effect of knowing they had MND they used words, phrases, that showed the serious, drastic impact of this news: 'devastated', 'a bolt out of the blue'youyou turn a corner', 'death sentence'.
