Sentence examples for was sentencing from inspiring English sources

But the judge essentially said he was sentencing Mr. Mubarak to life in prison on the general principle that as the president he should have been responsible.

In explaining why he was sentencing Mr. Kurita to the minimum allowed by law, 15 years in prison, Justice Charles H. Solomon repeatedly said mental illness had caused Mr. Kurita's actions.

The Financial Times Deutschland, German-owned and German-edited, had this to say about the resulting situation: the chancellor was "sentencing other countries in Europe to short- and middle-term consolidation that points to a disaster".

Only Mr. Mubarak was convicted of any charge, and the judge acknowledged that he was sentencing him to prison despite a lack of evidence — all but guaranteeing an appeal.

While a Manhattan judge was sentencing Testwell's vice president, Vincent Barone, to 5 years 4 months to 16 years in prison, the company's owner, V. Reddy Kancharla, lay unconscious in a hospital after trying to commit suicide on Tuesday afternoon, his lawyer said.

When Judge Denny Chin told Bernard L. Madoff yesterday that he was sentencing him to the maximum penalty of a hundred and fifty years in prison, he added that he was obligated to state the term in another unit of time as well: Madoff's sentence, he said, amounted to "one thousand eight hundred months".

Schwarz was sentenced first.

Taylor was sentenced to life.

He was sentenced to die.

He was sentenced to be hanged.

Loney was sentenced to nine years.