Sentence examples for mode of sentencing from inspiring English sources

"We do not gainsay that Abbott and Gould project a rational, less harsh, mode of sentencing," she wrote.

His early stories for The New Yorker seemed to be drawn from his own life — they were about men trying to quit drinking and get their lives together — and were in that familiar pared-down mode of short declarative sentences.

Use plenty of end-of-sentence particles.

His teenage ambition to be a master thief in the mode of Cary Grant got him sentenced to reform school and then to three years in prison.

Kind of like Beckett retelling Aesopian legends about old strange mansions and frustrated blacksmiths, but drawn out in a tone that is clearly Ruocco's own, this pair is great evidence of how much freshness and fear and tragedy can be packed into what seems the oldest mode of storytelling forms, and with sentences that change and mutate the modern current along the way.

The sense of an expression is both its contribution to the thought expressed by the sentence and the "mode of presentation" of its referent.

Lussick said such a long term would have been excessive as Taylor was convicted of aiding and abetting which "as a mode of liability generally warrants a lesser sentence than that imposed for more direct forms of participation".

Legal positivism is here sometimes associated with the homonymic but independent doctrines of logical positivism (the meaning of a sentence is its mode of verification) or sociological positivism (social phenomena can be studied only through the methods of natural science).

By contrast, in Experiment 1B (random presentation), we did not mirror this mode of presentation by segmenting the random order of sentences into subgroups of three.

Given the plausible assumption that the proposition expressed by a sentence is a function of the semantic values of its constituent expressions together with their mode of combination, it seems inevitable that what the latter sentence says is just what the former sentence says assuming, with the naïve theory, that 'Hesperus' and 'Phosphorus' possess the same semantic value.

As is well-documented, Hemingway favored the simple declarative sentence as the most powerful mode of direct expression, the adjective "good" as highest praise and the preposition "and".