Sentence examples for habitual sentences from inspiring English sources

The interpretive challenges presented by such sentences are (or should be) of great concern in computational linguistics, since much of people's general knowledge about the world is most naturally expressed in the form of generic and habitual sentences.

At the sentential level, even for a determinate parse there may be quantifier scope ambiguities ("Every man admires a certain woman"—Rosa Parks vs. his mother); and habitual and generic sentences often involve temporal/atemporal ambiguities ("Racehorses are (often) skittish"), among others.

Mr Jackson, a petty thief, does not.His punishment is harsh because he is a recidivist in a state with mandatory tough sentences for habitual criminals.

Davis's unusually long sentence results from a controversial practice known as "stacking," in which each count of an indictment is counted as a separate crime, thus transforming a first-time defendant into a "habitual criminal" subject to multiple sentences and mandatory sentencing guidelines.

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"The department of corrections is going to find you a job so you might as well do something you want to do and learn something," said Randall Riley, 37, who is doing a four-year sentence for habitual driving offenses.

Among other things, the bill raised the age of consent to 16 from 14, imposed minimum mandatory sentence for crimes involving firearms, instituted a "three-strikes-and-you're-out" (also known as a "reverse onus sentencing") for habitual offenders, and restricted "house arrest" policies for serious offenders.

But no other court has struck down the life sentence of a habitual offender (as opposed to a first-time offender) on these grounds.

Because he had convictions for two prior offenses involving the possession of small amounts of hydrocodone and LSD, he was sentenced in 2013 to 17 years in prison as a "habitual offender". He is currently appealing the sentence to Louisiana's Supreme Court.

On Dec. 2, some of the jurors went to Superior Court in New Haven to see the judge impose the death sentence on Mr. Hayes, the habitual criminal who called himself "an angry monster".