But Judge Glenn Berman of State Superior Court said he believed that the Legislature intended sentences of that length to be attached only to violent crimes.
Although the sodomy count alone carried a maximum sentence of four years in prison, Judge Kenneth H. Lange of Westchester County Court said he intended to sentence Mr. Surdoval to five years' probation with special conditions for sex offenders.
To this he responded that if he were guilty of sedition, he ought to be put to death, and if the court intended to sentence him, he should appeal to the king.
For instance, if you intended a sentence to end, but didn't end it with a period, your readers wouldn't be able to make sense out of your writing.
"I intend to sentence you in breach of the collection order," he said, warning that he faces prison.
Although Eliot did not "intend this sentence" to describe Mr. Rizzuto, Mr. Pinsky wrote then, "it perfectly describes the crystallizing moments of Rizzutian discourse that Tom Peyer and Hart Seely have gathered and preserved in the ragged-right lines of late-20th-century free verse".
"I consider it to be my public duty to make it a stiff sentence intended to discourage others from yielding to similar temptation".
And there is the occasional sentence intended to tingle the spine: "On Dec. 7, 2006, heavy rain fell over north London with a freak ferocity — as if the heavens were punishing the land".
Mr Ledezma, who will be 60 in May, is likely to be charged and then--if the López case is any guide imprisoned during a trial that will end with a sentence intended to instill fear in other dissidents.The government may hope that the spectacular arrest of one of the opposition's leading figures will spark violent demonstrations like last year's.
To repeat: in the preceding sentence "intended" is used in the broad sense; Aquinas sometimes employs it this way (e.g. ST II-II q. 64 a. 7), though in his official synthesis the word is used in the narrower sense to signify the (further) intention with which the act's object was chosen – object being the most proximate of one's (broad sense) intentions.
