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In conjunction with statistical training and parsing techniques, this loosening of grammar leads to a rather different conception of what comprises a grammatically flawed sentence : It is not necessarily one rejected by the grammar, but one whose analysis requires some rarely used rules.
James Liebman, a Columbia Law School professor who was the study's lead researcher, said that while race, politics and an overburdened legal system played a strong role, areas that relied heavily on the death penalty as punishment, even in weaker cases, were most likely to impose a flawed capital sentence.
They are not part of the prison estate but are still jails – and are flawed and failed institutions, based on flawed and failed sentencing.
Blair Gibbs, head of crime and justice at the Policy Exchange think-tank, said: "This flawed campaign to discredit short sentences ignores the views of magistrates and crime victims who know that short prison terms are sometimes the only option.
But Clark's reasoning is nonetheless flawed , because Polanski actually misstated what the maximum sentence was, and nobody in the courtroom mentioned it at any time during the plea hearing.
Still, as the numbers fall, Albany's three most powerful leaders -- the governor, Mr. Bruno, and the Democratic Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver -- say the basic sentencing grid of the laws remains fundamentally flawed , unduly harsh and rigid.
Several bureaucrats have received suspended sentences in relation to the tender process, but flawed contracts were nonetheless renewed, even after the convictions.
You don't read him for the polemic, however, but for the way he roots these ideas in his flawed and beguiling characters, and for the smile that haunts sentences that have the authentic cast of joined-up thoughts.
A flawed war-crimes trial, in which leading opposition figures have been sentenced to hang for what they did in the independence war of 1971, has greatly raised tensions.
Mr. Megrahi and his sympathizers depicted him for years after his conviction, and with renewed energy after he was allowed to return to Libya after serving 8 years of a 27-year minimum sentence in a Scottish jail, as a victim of flawed evidence and connivance by Western intelligence agencies in withholding vital information.
"These men placed countless innocents in harm's way when they engaged in a brazen and fatally flawed attempt at regime change," US Attorney Andrew M. Luger said after the sentencing in Minnesota on Thursday, NBC reported.
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The phrase "flawed sentences" functions as a noun phrase, where the adjective "flawed" modifies the noun "sentences". It describes sentences that contain errors or imperfections, impacting their clarity or correctness. Ludwig confirms the phrase's grammatical correctness and usability.
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