Sentence examples for grave sentences from inspiring English sources

He long ago proved that he is a fine stylist whose sly, grave sentences are merciless tools for probing a criminal justice system unequal to the task of sorting out responsibility for human frailty.

A second dissent from Monday's state-court ruling in Oklahoma, allowing the state to execute Glossip, quoted from the same Kennedy opinion: "The death penalty is the gravest sentence our society may impose".

The Indians probably suspect that what they are being asked to do is not quite right but often do not fully grasp the grave prison sentences they could suffer in the white man's world.

For this, he was convicted of grave robbing and sentenced to sixty days in jail.

These light sentences have grave ramifications for ending a culture of hazing in the military that has gone unchecked for too long.

Macdonald told the Guardian: "Some of the offences that have been committed are exceptionally serious and they require grave punishment, and the sentencing guidelines cater for this.

Moore said there were "grave flaws" in Alabama's sentencing system when a person could be sentenced to life without parole for a non-violent drug offense.

The sentences would be grave...Cordrey had given information to the police and he had confessed his guilt.

"It is thus important that his sentence to home detention be grave, and be taken gravely," the judge said.

The offer is meant to pressure David McDade, the Douglas County district attorney, into granting bond for Genarlow Wilson, who was ordered released from prison earlier this month after a Superior Court judge ruled that his sentence was a "grave miscarriage of justice".

Instead of the natural conclusion of that sentence — "in the grave" — he veered toward something to the effect of, "One foot on the sidelines in a suit talking about the game, with us!" It was an illuminating comment, which seemed to channel the ambivalences of a competitive athlete's life after sports.