Sentence examples for rules for sentencing from inspiring English sources

The S.E.C., the Department of Justice and rules for sentencing corporate offenders in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines all say that what should matter in such cases is whether the company had instituted, before the offense, a rigorous compliance/ethics program to prevent and detect wrongdoing.

A Florida judge ruled on Monday that the state's recently amended system for sentencing people to death is unconstitutional.

He uses introduction and elimination rules for atomic sentences, where these atomic sentences are not just reduced to other atomic sentences, but to subatomic expressions representing the meaning of predicates and individual names.

Bowing to threats from Capitol Hill, the commission set up to give judges clearer rules for the sentencing of federal criminals voted Tuesday to drop any reference to the death penalty.

Perhaps the structural mismatches between sentences of a natural language and sentences of a Fregean Begriffsschrift are so severe that one cannot formulate general rules for associating the sentences we ordinarily use with propositions.

Now, the meaning of expressions in a language L induces the rules for accepting its sentences.

In turn, this might result in a reduction in the learners' productivity and willingness to use newly learned grammatical rules for composing unique sentences.

… It is a semantic problem to specify the rules for matching up sentences of a natural language with the propositions that they express.

Syntax also includes the rules for how complex sentences are structured by grouping words together in units, called phrases, that can occupy different places in a larger syntactic structure.

We have refined and extended the core algorithms and pattern rules for pre-processing, sentence classification, fragment extraction, and post-processing.

The new rules make sentencing for financial crimes more mechanical, limiting judges' discretion.