Sentence examples for prior sentences from inspiring English sources

The court disagreed, saying the prior sentences, though unenforceable, remained relevant.

He said: "The justice system is failing to deter criminals who remain active for many years and sentences are clearly not working to rehabilitate when most offenders go back to crime regardless of how many prior sentences they have served.

Following the decision, the Supreme Court allowed individual states to decide whether to apply the ruling retroactively; the states of Alabama, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania decided to uphold all prior sentences.

The final (test) sentence of each story differed in whether it continued the grammatical subject (and first-mentioned character) established in prior sentences or shifted to a new one, and whether it had a pronoun or a lexical noun phrase subject.

Eric is in his late forties and has two escapes under his belt from prior sentences; both attempts were failures, but only just.

For the remaining predicted positive sentences with no relevant gene mentioned, we assume that prior sentences would contain the gene information.

Its presence seems to depend on (at least) the language being read, visual properties of the text (e.g., initial letter capitalization), the type of relationship between preview and target, and as shown here, semantic constraint generated by the prior sentence context.

"Was" being the operative word in the prior sentence.

The prior sentencing regime had exacerbated racial disparities in the state criminal justice system and especially grossly affected the employment and upward mobility prospects of young men of color across California.

I like the way this string of short declarative sentences and the wall they fall together develop a speech-photograph of sorts, a collage where each prior sentence falls onto the one following and/or the one before it, building something else in its place.

With one prior conviction, the sentence would be doubled to 20 years.