Sentence examples for fixed term in from inspiring English sources

Now she gets an odd offer from a mogul: the studio will buy her image, her persona (as it has already done with others), in perpetuity or for a fixed term, in order to make digital use of her likeness in movies (within contractual limits, e.g., no pornography).

Reflecting similar concern, Mr McLaughlin recommended that the CIA's head be given a fixed term in office, out of phase with presidential terms, so that he can be safely non-political.

On the one hand, each judge is designated for a fixed term, in order to prevent disproportionate influence of specific individuals on the legal system.

All is not lost, even if Joe dies shortly afterward, because the IRA can live on, like a ghost, for the rest of her fixed term;in this case, until she would have been 85 years old.

The GP-CV for the approach using the year as a fixed term in the third stage (Approach 1a) yielded a predictive ability of 0.70 (Table 7), whereas predictive ability for the approach accounting for a fixed year effect in the second stage (Approach 2) was 0.74.

Participants were strong and clear about the need to establish reliable reward structures, whereby service for a fixed term in a remote part of Ghana would provide advantages in subsequent appointments, easier admission to a specialist program or foreign study, or preferred access to scholarships.

But California led a sweeping national change in 1977 when it became the first state to take away the power of the parole board and eliminated flexible sentences, replacing them with fixed terms determined in advance by a judge.

By locking people up for fixed terms, he said in 2003, the state was denying prisoners any real incentive to acquire the life skills needed outside of the prison system, creating what he referred to as "postgraduate schools of crime".

We used the log number of the population of zip-code clusters as a fixed offset term in the regression equation.

One of the reasons a few commentators thought May was unlikely to call a General Election before 2020 – aside from her repeated, confident assertions that she wouldn't – was because David Cameron's government passed a "Fixed Term Parliament Act" in 2011, meaning a demarcated five-year term for every government.

One of the reasons a few commentators thought May was unlikely to call a general election before 2020 aside from her repeated, confident assertions that she wouldn't was because David Cameron's government passed a "Fixed Term Parliament Act" in 2011, meaning a demarcated five-year term for every government.