Sentence examples for sentences to apply from inspiring English sources

Both bills continue the failed approach of expanding mandatory minimum drug sentences to apply to potentially thousands of people who previously would not have faced them.

The modest reforms of 2004 and 2005 continue to deny people serving under the more punitive sentences to apply for shorter terms, and do not increase the power of judges to place addicts into treatment programs.

The board only meets once a quarter and after he took office, Scott made it so felons had to wait at least five years before completing their sentences to apply.

For instance, the state of New York -- which has one of the country's highest Latino incarceration rates -- allows people who have completed their sentences to apply to have their rights restored without special documentation.

If Rep. Radel had been convicted of a felony, not only would he have been disenfranchised, as a public official convicted of a felony, but he would also have to wait seven years after the end of his sentence to apply for restoration of his rights.

Specifically, the government said Canadians who have served their time for possession will not have to face the $631 pardon application fee, nor will they have to go through the waiting period (five to 10 years) after serving their sentence to apply for a pardon.

The FSA did not explicitly apply to those already serving time and so it has been interpreted, like other criminal sentencing laws, to apply only prospectively -- to those sentenced after President Obama signed it into law on August 3, 2010.

This sentence seems to apply perfectly to haemodialysate.

Now the government wants to rewrite the law to allow death sentences to be applied retrospectively.

Very often, Ms. Stein said, the statement is nothing more than one German sentence: "I want to apply for a fellowship".

In June, the United States Sentencing Commission voted to apply the guidelines retroactively, with the new policy going into effect on Monday this week.