(Key members of a drug gang can often trade information for lighter sentences; peripheral figures typically know too little to do the same).
Mr. Cornejo is 5 feet 6 inches tall, which in most circumstances would mean a lifetime sentenced to peripheral roles.
Cross-linguistically, the structural reflex of sentence-scope negation may be a free-standing adverb (German nicht, English not), a bound inflectional form (Japanese -na-, English -n't), or a verb (Finnish en, ei).[2] Where we do not find negation is in the one place propositional logic would lead us to look, sentence- or clause-peripheral position.
On page 1095 under the heading Safety/Tolerability, the sentence "The most common adverse event was peripheral edema, which was reported in 17.8% of OLM/AML patients and 18.1% of PER/AML recipients" should read "The most common adverse event was peripheral edema, which was reported in 18.4% of OLM/AML patients and 17.8% of PER/AML recipients".
Here, once again, Quine invoked his metaphor of the web of belief, claiming that sentences are more or less revisable, depending upon how "peripheral" or "central" their position is in the web.
The longest sentence was handed down to Cleary, who had always been thought of as peripheral to the group but provided a "botnet" of hundreds of thousands of PCs under his control to knock sites offline by flooding them with data.
Judge Rakoff set sentencing for July 7. Her lawyer, Charles D. Adler, called Ms. Kudryavtsev's role "minor and peripheral" after she had admitted accepting $500 a month to monitor accounts that were used to launder money.
2. Ignore the peripheral.
The Beatles were peripheral.
There are peripheral flaws.
