Sentencing depended on the judgment of the presiding official as to the relative "worth" (dignitas) of the defendant: an honestior could pay a fine when convicted of a crime for which an humilior might receive a scourging.
Federal drug laws impose a series of escalating sentences, depending on drug quantity.
It was unfair, he asserted, that the same crime committed under similar circumstances could result in widely different sentences, depending on the luck of the draw of which judges presided over the cases.
Brooks, who also cut a deal, pleaded guilty and will be sentenced depending on her "cooperation".
Consequently, the combining function should be able to model the relation between sentences depending on the number of non-neutral words and the value of the sentiment they contain.
This question is pressing for Neale's account, since there will be a substantial difference in the truth conditions of a pronoun-containing sentence depending on whether the pronoun receives a numberless or Russellian interpretation.
Conviction of a hate crime can result in an additional one to three years in state prison being tacked on to an offender's sentence, depending on the circumstances.
The release was the result of the recent "Drugs Minus Two" action taken by the U.S. Sentencing Commission (which is officially known as Amendment 782), which effectively provided most drug offenders with a retroactive, two-level reduction in sentence, which could amount to several years off each prisoner's sentence, depending on the length of their initial criminal sentence.
Despite the growing support for legalizing marijuana, federal law still imposes extraordinarily heavy punishment for growing it: five and 10-year mandatory minimum prison sentences depending on the weight of the marijuana an offender has or the number of marijuana plants he is growing.
It is usually good to only write two paragraphs relating to the topic sentence depending on the time limit.
