Sentence examples for mandated term from inspiring English sources

Prosecutors offered Blount a plea that would carry a mandated term of at least eighteen years; if he didn't take it, they said, they would bring additional charges.

What was needed to rescue the republic, Gingrich declared, was the end of the forty-year control of Congress by the Democratic Party; the weakening of congress itself (through constitutionally mandated term limits and spending controls); rejection of Clinton administration policies; and the passage of ten legislative proposals, most of them controversial and some apparently unconstitutional.

The prize, endowed by Mo Ibrahim, a Sudan-born telecommunications billionaire, is intended to reward democratically elected African leaders who retire voluntarily at the conclusion of their mandated terms after displaying strong qualities of governance and leadership.

Local governments rushed to pass punitive laws against tramping and vagrancy, mandating terms of six months to two years of hard labor in workhouses.

Last summer, a few months into his second and (constitutionally mandated) final term, Johnson told state G.O.P. leaders that he was determined to make the most of his bully pulpit while he had it.

Wershe was sentenced under arguably the most merciless drug statute ever conceived in the nation, Michigan's so-called 650-Lifer Law, which, at the time, mandated a term of life without parole for possession of more than six hundred and fifty grams of cocaine or heroin.

When his mandated presidential term was to end, a commission headed by himself proclaimed its continuation.

Mr. Galbraith argued that technology mandated long-term contracts to diminish high-stakes uncertainty.

From just over 300,000 inmates in state and federal prisons in 1978 the population has exploded to 1.57m today, the product of policies like "zero tolerance" and "three-strikes" which mandated jail terms for certain offences and lengthened sentences.

It exposes Mr Medvedev's presidency as little more than a ploy used by Mr Putin to stay in power after his constitutionally mandated two-term presidential limit expired.

He formed a distressingly limited view of the nation's narcotics problem, which, in 1973, led to the "Rockefeller drug laws," legislation that mandated prison terms of fifteen years to life for possessing or selling even small amounts of "hard" drugs.