Sentence examples for minimum provisions from inspiring English sources

The real challenge is for Congress to repeal the mandatory minimum provisions of the drug laws so judges can use the more flexible but still stiff sentencing guidelines.

"Just as baseball is a game of inches," Judge Gleeson wrote, "our drug-offense mandatory minimum provisions create a deadly serious game of grams".

Whereas in the decades prior to the 1980s when sentencing was largely a discretionary activity governed only by broad sentencing standards, a sentencing reform movement in the 1980s transformed sentencing practice through the advent of sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimum provisions.

"If the US, which is the biggest consumer of diamonds in the world, says 'listen, if the Congo is unable to enforce the minimum provisions we will no longer allow the importation into the United States from the Congo until they clean up their act', you would see a huge amount of action take place in the Congo," he says.

They battled on, laying the depots, using only minimum provisions themselves although, at Joyce's insistence, keeping the dogs well-fed: "The dogs are our only hope; our lives depend on them".

Progress has been relatively slow in translating the Code's minimum provisions into national laws.

We compare different rule-based contribution schemes where agents can first suggest a minimum provision level of the public good, before the smallest common denominator is implemented.

Premier League clubs' facilities for disabled supporters have been severely criticised in a parliamentary report which states MPs would support legal action to force compliance by clubs with minimum provision set out by law.

While the Arlington County attorney and the director of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) say confidentiality clauses are standard concepts in economic development deals, the two-day minimum provision is not, said Megan Rhyne, executive director of the nonpartisan Virginia Coalition for Open Government.

At first view, I enjoyed – if that is the word – Dean's work, though beyond the pile of pennies and the abject stand-ins for a family of four that the government had decreed was the bare minimum provision to support for a year (minus one crucial, parsimonious coin), the installation seemed to me to be a pile-up of too many elements.

Mr Grayling's period of office has been notable only for his attempts to restrict judicial review and human rights; his failure to protect the judiciary against criticism from his colleagues; and the reduction in legal aid to a bare minimum provision.