'low sentence' is not a correct phrase in written English.
It is not a phrase with a specific meaning, so it cannot be used in writing.
The appellate judges, questioning what one called a "breathtakingly low" sentence, also sent the case back to the trial judge, John G. Koeltl of Federal District Court, to determine if Ms. Stewart deserved a longer sentence in light of the seriousness of her conduct and the possibility that she had lied during her trial.
"Some might have pointed to the relatively low sentence Ressam received as evidence that somehow civilian prosecution does not pack enough of a punch in these cases," said Robert Chesney, an expert on national security law at the University of Texas Law School.
"However, it's important that the public can challenge what they believe to be exceptionally low sentences.
A few months later, Freed was fired by the city attorney for supposed professional weaknesses that included "deference to statements made by defense witnesses, recommending unreasonably low sentences and [a] low conviction rate".
The distribution of high and low sentences across all six rhetorical categories is presented in Table 5.
Here again, the general nature of Background sentences can be said to account for the category having the highest percentage of low sentences (50.13 %).
Table 4 presents the distribution of high and low sentences according their semantic similarity with the title across the six potential rhetorical categories.
As for the remaining rhetorical categories (Gap, Methodology, Result, and Conclusion), their level of semantic similarity to the title is evenly balanced, with an average percentage of 50.5 % of low sentences and 49.5 % of high sentences over a total of 1,059 sentences.
Bamford-Kowal-Bench sentences (Bench et al., 1979) were used as these have a low sentence-end predictability, which would limit the amount of top-down semantic processing being used to discriminate and understand the sentences (e.g. 'He is buying some bread', where the final word could be any item that may be purchased).
For example, one article began with the headline, 'Washington Wants Crackdown on Drugs: New Report by US Urges Canada to Take Action on Narco-Trafficking' and discussed a US report that characterized marijuana production in Canada as 'a thriving, low-risk pursuit, due in part to low sentences meted out by Canadian courts' (Edmonton Journal, March 15 , 2006.
Mr. Blagojevich's lawyers said they were seeking far less, saying simply that they were advocating for "the lowest sentence possible".
