California's fair sentencing will kick in next January and won't retroactively apply to the thousands already serving lengthy crack-related sentences in the state.
The following sentence means "Kick the football!" in Spanish: Patea la pelota de fútbal!
Only concrete meaning of single words ("kick" vs. "pick") and sentences ("she kicks the ball" vs. "she picks the pen") has appropriately been examined.
In California, voters reined in the state's infamous "Three Strikes and You're Out" law, passing a measure that now requires the third offense to be a serious or violent felony before the automatic life sentence kicks in.
In September 2005 he was given a nine-month suspended sentence for kicking and punching a woman in a taxi queue and three months later was jailed for 12 months for threatening a bouncer.
Prosecutors offered a plea bargain on Friday to the 16-year-old whose life sentence for kicking, slamming and stomping a 6-year-old to death was overturned this month.
And in any case, Hong Kong, at least in theory, runs an independent and apolitical immigration policy.Moreover, Hong Kong had appeared only last year to set a precedent for letting Mr Wu in, when it allowed another Chinese-born American whom the Chinese had sentenced and kicked out for "spying for Taiwan", Li Shaomin, to return to Hong Kong.
Having earned a reputation as a master of low-key, observational "anti-drama" (the plot of Wendy and Lucy can be encapsulated in a single sentence), Kelly Reichardt kicks things up a gear with this initially gripping thriller about three mismatched eco-warriors planning to blow up a hydroelectric dam.
The (non-belief attributing) sentence "Jill kicked X" is naturally read as referentially transparent in this sense.
This is because the sentence, "Danny kicked Becky the ball".
A few years ago, I managed to offend a number of cat lovers with a single sentence: "When I kick at a cat, it's nearly always for good reason".
