Sentence examples for unusual sentence from inspiring English sources

The publicity led Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf, to demand that the unusual sentence be overturned.

Whatever the odds may be that the judge will impose such an unusual sentence, Ms. Velázquez sees plenty of advantages to her suggestion.

"It's an unusual sentence to hear — the first word is cancer, the next word is leukemia, and then everything should be all right," Toronto Coach Paul Maurice said.

This includes shifts in font size, gaps within the document, unusual sentence and paragraph fragmentation, and changes in grammar, tense and spelling.

But if it was one of the more unusual sentences in the annals of American law, it also lasted not much longer than a failed sitcom.

In a Supreme Court argument today on the constitutionality of New Jersey's unusual sentencing procedure for hate crimes, the justices appeared troubled by the state's law but also troubled by the broader implications of overturning it.

Ian's is one of several stories told in the Equal Justice Initiative's (EJI) new report, Cruel and Unusual: Sentencing 13- and 14-Year-Old Children to Die in Prison (pdf).

In August the judge, in a highly unusual move, sentenced Ms. Osipova to twice that time.

He prayed an unusual, one-sentence prayer.

There they negotiated ways to change the cruel and unusual drug sentencing laws inflicted on New York 30 years ago by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.

It refused to see anything cruel and unusual about sentences of 25 years without parole for a man who stole three golf clubs from a pro shop and 50 years for another man who stole children's videotapes from a Kmart store.