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were sentencing
noun
Sense; meaning; significance.
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We were sentencing a shell of a man.
It will not be like the courts that were sentencing the ones who opposed the former regime that would sentence and execute within minutes...
"Telling someone that college is not right for him seems harsh and classist, vaguely Dickensian," Professor X writes, "as though we were sentencing him to a life in the coal mines".
"As my friend put it, it was like we were sentencing a man to death, forcing his wife to marry someone else, and participating in the wedding party all at the same time.
Jessica Stern, the executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, told the United Nations in August 2015 that the so-called Islamic State had established courts in Syria and Iraq that were sentencing men convicted of sodomy.
They were sentencing a Camorra family, and I went, as I often do, to watch the trial.
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Six were sentenced to death.
They were sentenced June 24.
Five men were sentenced on robbery charges.
Both brothers were sentenced to death.
Other dissidents were sentenced in absentia.
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