Sentence examples for low sentences from inspiring English sources

"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.

Table 4 presents the distribution of high and low sentences according their semantic similarity with the title across the six potential rhetorical categories.

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 %).

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.

"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.

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.

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).

Mr. Blagojevich's lawyers said they were seeking far less, saying simply that they were advocating for "the lowest sentence possible".

According to Ana Maria Vidal, from Peru's National Coordinator for Human Rights, Rodriguez Garcia's testimony was "automatically believed" and the sentence "ignored what the public prosecutor was asking for", finding him guilty of "homicidio simple" rather than "homicidio calificado" and "punishing the killer with the lowest sentence in the Penal Code" - six years.