Sentence examples for prior good from inspiring English sources

The United States Sentencing Commission is considering proposals that would allow military service or other evidence of "prior good works" to be considered as mitigating factors in sentencing decisions.

"Every chief wants as much information as possible about potential hires before making a hiring decision, and hiring one wrong person can undo a lot of an agency's prior good work," said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a policy group.

Block wrote in his opinion, "Her crimes were certainly a marked deviation from an exemplary law-abiding life; she has worked in meaningful jobs; she has a record of prior good works counseling and tending to young children; she apparently was under the influence of her boyfriend, and there is no evidence that she was even to be paid for her crime or was motivated by financial gain".

Although the fund has stumbled in 2002, it can boast two prior good years.

For example, shortly after the Red River Rebellion the Canadian government began a programme that speculators and other non-Métis exploited to dispossess the Métis of their land; had Scott not been executed, the government might well have supervised the program more rigorously, given the prior good relations between Canada and the Métis.

Prior good experiences (but not comfort with computers) demonstrated a modest association with knowledge outcomes, suggesting that prior course satisfaction may influence subsequent learning.

Here at the Oval, during his match-winning bowling partnership with Saeed Ajmal on Friday, Amir dismissed Matt Prior in a very similar fashion, though this time the ball, which had to be played, was just outside off-stump and Prior was good enough to get an edge.

He lost all hope from the get-go but his race prior is good enough to win here.

In the univariate model, the estimated OS was significantly longer for patients with a history of prior gastrectomy, good performance status, normal baseline hemoglobin, single metastatic site, and the absence of peritoneal dissemination (Table 3).

The broad intuition is that the right is prior to the good.

This can be thought of as an application of John Rawls's (1972: 31) claim that the right is prior to the good.