Sentence examples for sentencing standards from inspiring English sources

States have built more prisons, sentencing standards have toughened and more people are receiving community supervision.

State sentencing standards in juvenile cases reflect those arguments about youth culpability.

Instead, California remains one of worst in the country with harsh drug sentencing standards and overcrowded prisons and jails.

A unanimous decision was just announced by the U.S. Sentencing Commission that new sentencing standards for non-violent federal drug offenses will actually be applied retroactively -- which could give tens of thousands of prisoners shorter sentences to serve.

It observed the fact that Shaikh is the first European to be executed in China in 50 years is highly emotive and sensational: "But viewed in context, the uniform application of sentencing standards for both the Chinese and foreigners underscores the progress of China's legal system, which is steadily building the principle of rule of law".

A recent letter to Messrs Leahy and Grassley from FLEOA follows much the same script: "[A]ny change in the mandatory minimum sentencing standard does a disservice to the brave men and women who are asked to put their lives on the line to protect us from terrorists and criminals".

This pattern persists across linguistic domains, so the same negative relationship is seen when looking at the Wug test scores and syntactic errors, and the formulated sentences standard scores and morphological errors.

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In any event, Ockham was at Oxford studying theology by at least the year 1318 19, and probably the previous year as well, when (in 1317) he began a required two-year cycle of lectures commenting on Peter Lombard's Sentences, the standard theological textbook of the day.

Peru does not issue life sentences in standard cases of murder and has abolished capital punishment in all but exceptional circumstances, such as crimes committed under military law.

As the Corrections Company of America's 2010 annual report puts it, "the demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices or through decriminalization of certain activities that are currently practiced or proscribed by our criminal laws".