Sentence examples for why sentence from inspiring English sources

"Mr. Jackson have anything to say in this case why sentence of law should not be imposed against him?" Gordon asked.

When presented no objection was made to its form or wording, neither the motion for new trial nor in arrest of judgment indicated any such objection, and plaintiffs in error mentioned none when called upon to show cause why sentence should not be imposed.

The misrecital of the verdict, in the statement of the intermediate inquiry whether the prisoner had aught to say why sentence should not be pronounced against him, is no more than an irregularity, or error, not affecting the jurisdiction of the court.

One New York decision, in 1911, concluded that "it has been one of the indispensable requirements of the common law that no person should have the sentence of death passed against him without first being given the opportunity to personally speak for himself and show cause, if he can, why sentence should not be pronounced against him".

Shortly after the jury returned its verdict and just before the judge was about to pass sentence, Webster was asked if there was any reason why sentence of death should not be passed upon her.

Still, it is a natural way of accounting for why sentences with different syntactic structures and containing words with different semantic values that are true in all the same worlds express different propositions.

If McFetridge is right that all of this can be expressed without appealing to the existence of facts then we can explain why sentences are true, describe what makes them true, without mention of the truth-makers that Hochberg, Armstrong et al. demand.

"This is why I sentence myself to exile".

That is why the sentence is quite true where it says that no factory representative ever saw the camp.

Can an 18-year-old really not understand why a sentence of Hemingway or Wharton is more charismatic than a tweet?

Maybe that was why every sentence he spoke seemed to cap itself off as I listened, becoming an enigmatic final pronouncement.