In my experience, this type of sentence is all too common.
The same type of sentence was handed down last month for one of the company's other former executives, Zhang Chunjiang, who once served as vice chairman of China Mobile.
Many have come to view financial frauds as crimes worthy of the type of sentences that was once reserved for violent offenders.
Mr. Ogletree further pointed out, "There are still two very, very important steps: whether there will be a conviction and what type of sentence is imposed".
"In reality, given the conviction on all 12 counts, it is inevitable that the type of sentence that is uppermost in the court's mind is a custodial sentence and he must understand that," Sweeney told Harris's barrister.
The type of sentence handed down to Mire means that if he is found to be free of symptoms and subject to review he could be transferred to prison to serve the remainder of the term.
A two-year-old package of reforms, enacted into law and known as "realignment," is changing the type of sentences prisoners receive, where they are housed and the sort of post-release supervision they get.
Further, since it is merely a type of sentence, one can utter a performative without performing a speech act.
Apart from MT, another important type of sentence transduction is semantic parsing, in the sense of mapping sentences in some domain to logical forms usable for question answering.
In a cryptotype, "class membership of the word is not apparent until there is a question of using it or referring to it in one of these special types of sentence, and then we find that this word belongs to a class requiring some sort of distinctive treatment, which may even be the negative treatment of excluding that type of sentence" (p. 89).
