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I was going to use a "small price to pay" sentence here, but BGR beat me to it.
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The news that Manchester City has fined its sulking striker Carlos Tévez a month's pay and sentenced him, essentially, to time served as a punishment would seem to put to rest the controversy that has been a rare stain on the club's solid start to the Premier League season.
A woman who sent her Arab-American boss a threatening note that warned "Remember 9/11" and "You and your kids will pay" was sentenced to eight months in a federal halfway house.
Judges will receive detailed court procedures and a "Bench Card" to guide them, and be required to consider the ability to pay at sentencing.
Hale's statement makes no mention of his constitutional duty to make an inquiry into a person's ability to pay before sentencing them to incarceration for failing to make a payment.
The real offense is the museum's coyness about publicizing this fact, having some time ago deleted from its ticket-desk signs the sentence "Pay What You Wish but You Must Pay Something".
Of course, you have to pay attention to sentence length and word choice -- but pay attention to your punctuation as well.
That's a high price to pay for a sentence that hasn't been carried out since 2006.
Pay attention to sentence structure and word choice.
In Colorado Springs, people who told judges they could not afford to pay fines were sentenced to serve a day for every $50 they owed, with some sentenced to multiple terms for multiple offenses.
The city said municipal courts stopped imposing "pay or serve" sentences by the end of 2015 and the ordinances that allowed the practice have been changed.
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