Since then, the voters, alarmed at a surge in violent crime, have demanded fiercer sentences.
Santa Clara Judge Aaron Persky is still feeling a fierce backlash for sentencing Brock Turner to six months in jail (three, assuming "good behavior") and three years of probation for sexually assaulting a young woman at Stanford University.
A former policeman found guilty in the 2006 killing of the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of President Vladimir V. Putin, was sentenced on Friday to 11 years in a penal colony.
Jacques Audiard speaks with a fierce rapidity, his sentences sauced with argot, his driving delivery crashing through the babble of voices and the clatter of dishes in the Dôme restaurant at Montparnasse.
U.S. District Judge Mark W. Bennett, a fierce critic of mandatory sentencing laws, thought that made no sense.
Through the juvenile collaboration, a young writer's voice begins to make itself heard, telling vivid stories (like the trial of the neighbours with the fierce dog), trying out sentences ("It is only in going that we find out what might have been done and then it is no use") and character sketches, like the "tall stout lively person with a fatal habit of talking to herself", in one of the stories.
Mr. Jalet tackles the sentence with a fierce carnality.
Scott Keller, solicitor general of Texas, a post formerly held by the Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, had only got into the second sentence of a fierce condemnation of Obama's programme when he was abruptly challenged by Sotomayor.
The reaction to Manafort's sentence was swift and fierce Thursday night, and continued to play out Friday, with the sentence being debated on cable news shows and becoming fodder at political rallies.
As Emma talks in clipped, accelerated sentences, you sense the same fierce defensiveness Houston often put on like armor in interviews during her career.
