Sentence examples for rational sentences from inspiring English sources

As Mr. Seidensticker recalled in "Tokyo Central," some writers required more dancing than others: "Tanizaki wrote clear, rational sentences," Mr. Seidensticker wrote.

The broadcaster Sally Magnusson has set up a charity in memory of her late mother, Mamie – a vivacious journalist and wife of the late Magnus Magnusson – whose dementia brought memory loss but also, heartbreakingly in a woman for whom words and their precise usage were a passion, an inability to string together rational sentences.

It's not a rational sentence.

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States need to encourage more rational sentencing, restore the use of executive clemency and bring parole back into the corrections process.

The commission, which appears to have been dominated by prosecutors, called for more rational sentencing guidelines and allowing judges to send more offenders to treatment instead of prison.

"Rational Sentencing" (editorial, Oct. 25) was right on point in calling on New York's sentencing commission to present "a full menu of options for reforming the most draconian drug laws the country has yet seen".

"The Hammonds join... countless other individuals who were denied the opportunity for a judge to exercise appropriate judgment in imposing a rational sentence," said Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va)., a staunch opponent of mandatory minimums, in a statement on Tuesday.

Still, he keeps speaking in the hyper-rational, oddly formal sentences of a computer techie.

"For all practical purposes then, a sentence of death in California is a sentence of life imprisonment with the remote possibility of death — a sentence no rational legislature or jury could ever impose.

There may be some rational explanations for that sentence; one is that, as many have long suspected, the word "timid" is not in Newt's vocabulary.