Sentence examples for term of punishment from inspiring English sources

Commutation, in law, shortening of a term of punishment or lowering of the level of punishment.

"After her July suicide attempt, I watched her begin to piece her life and spirit back together only to have that shattered by the disciplinary proceedings brought against her and then the unannounced initiation of her term of punishment last month," Strangio wrote.

The pope, who intends to visit a Roman prison on Sunday on a Holy Year day dedicated to prisoners, last week asked governments worldwide for leniency toward inmates, saying, "A reduction, even a modest one, of the term of punishment would be for prisoners a clear sign of sensitivity to their condition".

"I'm not thinking in terms of punishment," Sister Loretta said.

Britain's new guidelines state that using a hand-held phone when causing a death will "always make the offense more serious" in terms of punishment and lead to prison time.

"Most of what we do in the criminal justice system in terms of punishment is something that is allegedly open to the public," Ms. Denno said, "and this is the ultimate form of our process".

The smaller units "were the ones who were planning the roadside bombs and intentionally targeting civilian targets, etc., and while I never heard Taliban dealing with them, in terms of punishment, I frequently heard them being scolded," he said.

In terms of punishment — which can range from institutions offering corrective action to their being forbidden to use government grants for research with human subjects — he said "everything is on the table".

Abortion was debated in Thomas Aquinas's day – he thought the act was a sin against the marriage, and that, of course, male fetuses were ensouled earlier than female ones – and for a long while, the Church distinguished between early and late-term abortions in terms of punishment.

After this rational assertion, it would seem that there is no logical difference between a voluntary and involuntary sin in terms of punishment.[27] However, such a lack of moral distinction is unacceptable to Crescas.

This response was described by the experimenter in terms of "additions and subtractions", but never in terms of punishment and reward, in order to minimize demand characteristics of the game.