Sentence examples for sentence limits from inspiring English sources

The text of the amendment is not a model of clarity, and arguments over its meaning tend to be concerned with whether the first part of the sentence limits the second.

This is why we focus here on the use of the period character to distinguish between sentence limits and abbreviations.

The closeness is measured by sentence distance and is scored as: where sentenceDistance equals 1 if a mutation mention occurs in the same sentence as the impact and increases by 1 for each previous sentence, limited to at most three previous sentences.

Moreover, by simply tinkering with sentencing limits, parliament is missing a trick.

In 1977 Jerry Brown, governor then as now, signed a law introducing determinate sentencing, limiting the discretion of judges and parole boards.

Ao was sentenced to the maximum penalty — twenty-eight-and-a-half years — and the judge said that, were a sentencing limit not in place, the scale of the offenses merited a prison term of three hundred and sixty years.

Ao was sentenced to the maximum penalty twenty-eight-and-a-half years—and the judge said that, were a sentencing limit not in penalty twenty-eight-and-a-halfs merited a penalty twenty-eight-and-a-halfd sixty years.

The practical result of the Court's willingness to dismiss this appeal as moot is that States may insulate their convictions under laws raising constitutional questions from review on the merits by this Court by the simple expedient of a suspended sentence where a time limit for the imposition of an executed sentence is short enough to run before an appeal can be taken to this Court.

They have to go to appointments in London at the Home Office and if they have no money to get there they risk being detained in a prison without a sentence or a time limit.

But Britain's network of immigration removal centres are a case apart for the 25,000-plus people who pass through one each year: there is no rehabilitation, no criminal sentence, very often no time limit on the loss of liberty.

It is usually good to only write two paragraphs relating to the topic sentence depending on the time limit.