Sentence examples for permissible sentence from inspiring English sources

The German court sentenced him to the maximum permissible sentence of life imprisonment on Tuesday, as the prosecution had demanded, rejecting a defense plea for the case to be dropped under European Union regulations covering due process.

The rule set describes syntactic structures of permissible sentences in the language.

U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, whose office was prosecuting Swartz, insisted that all of her office's actions were "appropriate," emphasizing that prosecutors did not seek the maximum 35 years in prison permissible under sentencing guidelines.

Firms may be genuinely unclear on what is permissible and heavy sentencing may make them wary of competing aggressively.There is no such risk of over-enforcement with cartels.

An appeals court, however, recently concluded that the district judge abused her discretion by taking into account factors that were not permissible in imposing sentences in white-collar cases.

However, mixed interpretations are permissible for ambiguous sentences.

And while the appeals court said it was permissible to reduce a sentence on account of harsh conditions during pretrial confinement, Judge Cooke went too far when she shaved off more than nine years.

A perspicuous representation of these structures in the language of modern symbolic logic, so the formalists thought, would make clear the logically permissible inferences to and from such sentences and thereby establish the logical boundaries of the concept under study.

Thus (great word, "thus," makes the conclusion seem inevitable), it is permissible to mix verb tenses within a sentence — but never inconsistently.

(That is permissible because the appeals court stayed his sentence of home detention, including the TV ban, while it considered the appeal).

The new national law described abortion to save a mother's life and a court decision to pass the death sentence as the only two permissible exceptions to the right to life.