Sentence examples for ruling sentencing from inspiring English sources
Bravo for Mr Thaksin, who was prime minister from 2001 to 2006 but fled Thailand in 2008 in advance of a court ruling sentencing him in absentia to two years' imprisonment for corruption while in office.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has overturned a court ruling sentencing a woman to 10 lashes for breaking a ban on female drivers, reports say.
"fatwa - 1625, from Arabic fetwa - 'a decision given by a mufti;' related to fata - 'to instruct by a legal decision.' Popularized 1989 when Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a ruling sentencing author Salman Rushdie to death for publishing 'The Satanic Verses' (1988).
In the two years after the Booker ruling, sentences of blacks were on average 15.2% longer than the sentences of similarly situated whites, according to the Sentencing Commission report.
The ruling on sentencing held that one of the less important factors listed by the judge as justifying a longer sentence — that his conduct had led to the collapse of a financial institution — was not applicable.
The decision overturns the December 2009 ruling that sentenced Ms. Knox to 26 years in prison and Mr. Sollecito to 25 for the murder of the 21-year-old Ms. Kercher, a Briton who shared an apartment with Ms. Knox.
The original ruling last year sentenced a columnist and the newspapers owners to three years in jail and awarded damages totalling $40m £25mm).
The Supreme Court of Iceland overturned the ruling and sentenced Jón to 4 and a half years in prison for breach of trust in the Exeter case.
The Supreme Court of Iceland overturned the ruling and sentenced Ragnar to 4 and a half years in prison for breach of trust in the Exeter case.
The Supreme Court of Iceland overturned the ruling and sentenced Styrmir to 1 year in prison for breach of trust in the Exeter case.
Madonna has taken to her website to express outrage over a Malawi court ruling that sentenced two engaged men to 14 years of hard labor because homosexuality is illegal in the country.
