Sentence examples for so-called sentence from inspiring English sources

In a sneering cross-examination Tuesday, Henry Brennan, a lawyer on Whitey's defense team, referred to Martorano's deal for a "so-called sentence" of 14 years (12 served) for 20 murders and asked the Executioner if he felt he was killing out of honor and integrity.

We will investigate methods for identifying and classifying period characters in these text types, as a sub task of the so-called sentence boundary detection problem.

To understand how the brain pulls it all off, psychologists have developed methods for tracking how quickly people grasp what they read and hear, in so-called sentence-processing experiments.

In that respect the discussions of protocol sentences, the so-called protocol sentence debate, addressed their linguistic characteristics and their epistemological status (Uebel 1992).

But only around a fifth of third-time offenders are given the so-called "minimum" sentence of three years.

We doubt whether the new so-called mandatory sentence will prove to be a disaster on the same scale.

By contrast, the statement "RTC → TC" expressed the purely analytic component of the theory, its "A-postulate" (or so-called Carnap sentence).

He's setting up an inter-governmental task force to tackle corruption, and has promised to overhaul the court system to tackle so-called "telephone sentences"–the practice by which judges are told what the sentence should be through a phone call.

Thus today's sentencing Green Paper for England and Wales will limit the use of so-called "indeterminate sentences", which were created under Tony Blair to ensure that certain prisoners had no fixed release date and had to meet certain conditions before leaving prison.

The foregoing views of meaningfulness were essentially refinements of the doctrine of so-called protocol sentences, developed in the late 1920s and early 1930s and elaborated especially by Carnap, Neurath, and also (with some differences) by Schlick.

In his speeches in the Lords, he was highly critical of government proposals both to reduce the right of trial by jury and effectively give the prosecution a right of appeal in so-called lenient sentencing cases.