Sentence examples for off sentencing from inspiring English sources

Martha Stewart lost her last chance to stave off sentencing on criminal charges yesterday when a federal judge rejected her request for a new trial.

[C6.] Stewart Is Denied a New Trial Martha Stewart lost her last chance to stave off sentencing on criminal charges when a judge in Manhattan rejected her request for a new trial.

The judge put off sentencing pending efforts to return him to Hawthorne.

An entire generation of urban kids is essentially being written off, sentenced to crowded schools, broken families, dangerous streets, and joblessness.

Thoughts trail off, sentences double back.

Many prisoners suddenly discover, post-conviction, that they had a drinking problem (participating in rehab shaves time off sentences).

Though given a four-year sentence for tax fraud, Mr Berlusconi benefited from a pardon that wiped three years off sentences for offences committed before 2006.

He bites off sentences, or lets them trail toward the obvious point, as if to minimize the drama of what he's saying.

Ask yourself whether Samuel Eliot Morison could reel off sentences on the order of "But Hillary's celestial ambitions were thwarted by a catch-22".

By now, the pace was beginning to trail off, sentence order was going out the window and the rhyme scheme was sounding increasingly strained.

As a speaker, he's a shaggily poetic dude, rattling off sentences that are all pretty much about getting as fucked up as humanly possible.