Sentence examples for many sentencing from inspiring English sources

And with the G.O.P. also holding power in a majority of state houses and state legislatures, where many sentencing policies are determined, there is little chance of reforming the drug laws.

Many sentencing schemes allow or require judges to impose longer sentences based on all sorts of criteria, including the defendant's background and the nature and severity of his crime.

His analysis of the penal system's shortcomings is also acute: its poor assessment of inmates' needs; the miserable amount of education - as low as five hours a week in local prisons - that inmates receive, when 95% are in need of urgent help; the failure of many sentencing plans to even refer to tackling offending behaviour.

If, however, I am fined as punishment for a crime, that fine is intended to be burdensome: that is why many sentencing authorities aim to proportion fines to the offender's means, to ensure that both rich and poor offenders are burdened fairly and proportionately; and that is what is wrong with the idea that one might take out insurance to cover the cost of fines.

And many sentences that begin with "and".

I've not found too many sentences I can put it in".

At the other extreme, many sentences are too long to be useful.

Shirley loves using the word "clitoris" in a sentence, in many sentences, just for the fun of it.

And I'm sorry for starting so many sentences with conjunctions, too.

A great many sentences nowadays begin with "if" or "were" or "had".

Novelistic form, the accretion of many sentences, must find its own deeper, slower rhythm.