Sentence examples for exemplary sentences from inspiring English sources

This is what those "exemplary sentences" looked like.

But are such "exemplary sentences" ever effective as a deterrent to other potential offenders?

The pattern of prosecutions, convictions and harsh and exemplary sentences points towards a policy of criminalising dissent.

Many years ago, when Glasgow's reputation was fouled by the razor gangs, given world-wide notoriety in the novel No Mean City, Lord Carmont handed out exemplary sentences.

At the Old Bailey Judge Salmon later handed down exemplary sentences of four years each on nine white youths who had gone "nigger hunting".

When Judge Elgan Edwards, the recorder of Chester, handed his four-year exemplary sentences to two men for using Facebook to incite riots that never happened, he said he hoped it would be a deterrent to would-be rioters.

There is one other factor that can further blunt the impact of an exemplary sentence.

After more than 2 years of uncertainty and high drama, this exemplary sentence is justice for elephants.

As Mr Bush said this week, they need to be more vigorously enforced; a few exemplary jail sentences would be welcome.

Farm invasions, and the resulting deaths of white farmers, credibly explain the court's haste in imposing an exemplary death sentence on a woman.

"Hartmann's completion of more than two-thirds of her sentence and her exemplary conduct … are factors that favour her early release," wrote Theodor Meron, the court's American chief justice.