Sentence examples for extend the sentences from inspiring English sources

Minor violations of petty regulations are frequently used as pretexts to extend the sentences of political prisoners, a report by Human Rights Watch found last year.

On Friday Delhi's high court rejected a petition to extend the sentence, saying that the man had served the maximum under the law.

As a result, lawmakers inadvertently extended the sentences of sex offenders convicted between July 1 , 1993 and July 1 , 1998 by subjecting them to the required lifetime supervision.

However, in December 2011, Berman extended the sentence by 4.5 years, citing repeated efforts by Douglas to get drugs into prison, including four times his lawyer smuggled contraband to him in her bra, according to EW. (Attorney Jennifer Ridha detailed their relationship, and how she brought him Xanax in prison, in a memoir published last year). .

Because murder is a capital offense in Arizona, she said, "a death sentence does not extend the range of sentencing" and consequently does not pose a problem under Apprendi.

By allowing the drugs to come in and subsequently punishing people for drug use, the COs are extending the convicts' sentences and securing upstate hillbilly jobs for the future.

Extensions of this minimalist strategy have attempted to deploy minimal conceptions of other notions such as truth-aptness, proposition (Horwich 1990, 18 22) and more besides to extend the account to normative sentences seeming to employ these notions.

An appeals court extended the prison sentence of André Tarallo, one of the main defendants in the 2003 embezzlement trial of executives at the oil group Elf Aquitaine to seven years, from four.

The guidelines also extend the starting point for rape sentences to 15 years.

Mr Clegg's team is examining how far up the sentence scale to extend the new right.

And once a case goes to court, and even a conviction, the tendency to give police officers every benefit appears to extend to the sentencing as well.