Sentence examples similar to reverse sentences from inspiring English sources

The only real way for California to cut prison costs is to reverse sentencing policies that have filled its prisons to bursting and have driven up costs by about 50 percent over the last decade alone.

Therefore, it would be reasonable to assume that they attended to the easier task of differentiating between forward and reversed sentences.

Abley also relishes Hixkaryana, a Brazilian language which reverses sentence order to put the object first and the subject last; the sentence toto yahosIye kamara (man grabbed jaguar') does not describe crazy heroism; it should translate to 'jaguar grabbed man'.

For reversible sentences, the 2 pictures featured 1 correct depiction and 1 syntactic foil in which the roles of the 2 people are reversed (Fig. 1 B ).

Patients with damage in left inferior frontal regions made greater numbers of reverse role errors primarily in the passive sentences, suggesting that they had difficulty determining the agent and recipient of the action in the sentences; a distinction that is made in semantically reversible sentences on the basis of syntactic information.

There were times when he voted (mostly with the majority) to reverse capital sentences because of procedural errors.

But as my colleague Anthony Lewis pointed out last week, judges appointed by Mr. Ashcroft when he was governor of Missouri voted as often as Justice White -- in some cases, more often -- to reverse capital sentences.

Among other things, the bill raised the age of consent to 16 from 14, imposed minimum mandatory sentence for crimes involving firearms, instituted a "three-strikes-and-you're-out" (also known as a "reverse onus sentencing") for habitual offenders, and restricted "house arrest" policies for serious offenders.

The appeals court has one of the lowest rates in the nation for reversing death sentences.

The test is to reverse the sentence: Of the people who love the Yankees, she is one.

In both Supreme Court decisions in the case, the justices reversed death sentences, saying the juries had not been properly instructed on how to consider whether Mr. Penry was mentally retarded.