Sentence examples for law sentencing from inspiring English sources

In December, Trump signed into law sentencing reform backed by both parties.

Concluding that only Piz could have concocted such a vile prank, Logan laid down the law, sentencing Veronica's boyfriend to major beatdown.

Legislators, officials and advocates are now, quite rightly, looking at drug law sentencing reforms that consign the war on drugs to history.

Under Austrian law, sentences are served concurrently and not consecutively.

Under New Jersey law, sentences of less than a year are served in county jails, rather than state prisons.

He was convicted under an early federal computer crime law, sentenced to probation and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and perform community service.

Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) is the most feared of elite Street Judges, with the power to enforce the law, sentence offenders and execute them on the spot – if necessary.

In May, a federal judge, acknowledging that the case was Dickensian but saying that he had no leeway under the law, sentenced Young to serve a minimum of 15 years in federal prison.

For Roberts, the truth of 'is a law' sentences is always relative to a contextually salient theory.

For example, in the covering law model, the theory component (law sentences) is the core of an explanans (Hempel and Oppenheim 1948; Hempel 1965).

A dispositional sentence such as 'Jones believes the earth is round' is unlike a law-sentence insofar as it mentions an individual, Jones.