Sentence examples for greater minimum from inspiring English sources

Mr. Abbott argued that his 15-year-sentence for being a career criminal was such a greater minimum sentence and that it should cancel out the additional five years for the gun charge.

The question in the case was what Congress meant when it revised a 1968 federal gun control law in 1998 by, among other things, adding a new preface saying the five-year minimum for having or using guns while selling drugs applied "except to the extent that a greater minimum sentence is otherwise provided".

Finally, both techniques generated greater minimum negative principal stresses (compression) on the mesial surface of the second molar roots and greater maximum principal stresses on their distal surfaces.

The 2.5 μm diameter CP IDPs, observed on the collectors, but less well studied because they are more difficult to manipulate and section, require an even greater minimum tensile strength, from 500 to 1200 N/m2 (Fig. 5), for charges from 10to1515 volts.

This is explained biologically by parasites with mutations requiring greater minimum inhibitory concentrations of SP to kill or suppress the parasites [27].

Glide polar calculations confirmed that short-tailed albatrosses had 15 25% greater minimum sink and best glide velocities, whereas waved albatrosses had lower values, comparable to black-footed and Laysan albatrosses (analysis of variance: F3,67 = 16.99 and 13.37, respectively, P<0.001; Table S1).

The Maxmin-EU rule, for instance, recommends picking the action with greatest minimum expected utility (see Gilboa and Schmeidler 1989; Walley 1991).

This led to what Hanbury Brown describes as "the great minimum range controversy".

The existence of great minima is clearly seen in the time distribution of historical data, in agreement with the variation of Δ14C content that increases during periods of great minima.

In addition, we find that the longest period of solar inactivity during the last 1000 years occurred during the Spörer minimum where both sunspot and auroral records are scarcest among the great minima.

In this paper, we use the sunspot and auroral records of ancient Korea and China, and cosmogenic isotopes to examine the features of great minima in solar activity during the last 1000 years.