(n.) The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several efforts to extradite Polanski to California have failed.
(2) The arrest warrant, which came into effect in 2004, was not perfect, but it was immediately useful, leading to the swift extradition of one of London’s would-be bombers in July 2005, Hussain Osman, from Italy, where he had fled.
(3) As for his detention following a possible conviction … although Mr Aswat would have access to mental health services regardless of which prison he was be detained in, his extradition to a country where he had no ties and where he would face an uncertain future in an as yet undetermined institution, and possibly be subjected to the highly restrictive regime in ADX Florence, would violate article 3 of the convention."
(4) In a submission to a House of Lords EU subcommittee , it said: "Most of the stakeholders consulted believe that opting out of this and relying on alternative arrangements would result in fewer extraditions, longer delays, higher costs, more offenders evading justice and increased risk to public safety."
(5) Heinz Lammerding, the Waffen SS general in command of the unit that committed the massacre, was captured by allied forces but never extradited to France and was sentenced to death in absentia by a Bordeaux military court in 1951.
(6) The 61-year-old Canadian, who was one of the original founders of Greenpeace , was arrested last Sunday at Frankfurt airport at the request of Costa Rica, which wants to see him extradited over a 10-year-old charge of "violating ships traffic".
(7) Parents appear at provincial court in Málaga, part of the process to transfer them to the Spanish capital, Madrid, for extradition hearing on Monday.
(8) Acevedo Sarmiento, who was to supply the cocaine, was arrested by Colombian authorities and extradited to the US.
(9) The 54-year-old, who was jailed for seven years for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, has been fighting extradition since 2004.
(10) "All human rights groups warn against his extradition over fears he will be tortured.
(11) Sceptics said the US protections for journalists would make such a prosecution difficult and also cited pragmatic issues, such as the difficulty of extraditing Assange, an Australian.
(12) Polanski’s attorneys have said the latest extradition request neglected to say the director had served 42 days of court-ordered prison time in 1977.
(13) His lawyer has argued that his client would not receive a fair trial, and Assange also fears he could face extradition to the United States.
(14) A petition against his extradition has been signed by almost 20,000 people.
(15) Polanski successfully fought extradition to the US in 2009 in connection with outstanding charges against him after being arrested in Switzerland, where he had been invited to attend the Zurich film festival.
(16) Julian Knowles, a barrister from London's Matrix Chambers specialising in extradition cases, said there was a definite need for changes.
(17) McKinnon, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, had been sought for extradition by the United States because he repeatedly hacked into government computer systems.
(18) Although supporters have stumped up £180,000, it is expected bail will be refused, pending a full hearing of Sweden's extradition request.
(19) Before the announcement in Quito, Britain had said the granting of asylum would make no difference to its position: it still considers itself obliged to arrest Assange and extradite him to face questioning in Sweden.
(20) The website was destroyed, fortunes seized and Dotcom arrested, along with three colleagues, for extradition.
Sentence
Definition:
(n.) Sense; meaning; significance.
(n.) An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
(n.) A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
(n.) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
(n.) A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
(n.) A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.
(v. t.) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
(v. t.) To decree or announce as a sentence.
(v. t.) To utter sententiously.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Bennett were sentenced today under the new law, he likely would not receive a life sentence.
(2) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
(3) This preliminary study compared the level of ego development, as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), of 30 women with histories of childhood sexual victimization, and 30 women with no history of abuse.
(4) The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change Read more “President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high-level drug traffickers.
(5) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(6) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
(7) Local and international media and watchdog organisations such as the World Association of Newspapers , Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have issued statements strongly condemning the prison sentence.
(8) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
(9) "It is in my power to lessen their sentence – it's not excluded that that will happen."
(10) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(11) It was found that labelling the picture with a sentence containing a specific verb substantially increased the likelihood that the specific picture corresponding to that verb would subsequently be falsely recognized.
(12) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
(13) The first paper of this series (Picheny, Durlach, & Braida, 1985) presented evidence that there are substantial intelligibility differences for hearing-impaired listeners between nonsense sentences spoken in a conversational manner and spoken with the effort to produce clear speech.
(14) Butler was convicted of grevious bodily harm and child cruelty, and sentenced to prison.
(15) We did not find a postoperative threshold shift (signal-to-noise ratio) for the intelligibility of sentences presented in noise.
(16) It is the same article of the law that was used against Pussy Riot and can carry a jail sentence of several years.
(17) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
(18) A high court judge sentenced him to 22 months in prison in February 2012, but he fled the country before he could be jailed.
(19) Contrary to Taylor (1966) there were significant correlations between stuttering and grammatical class even when initial phoneme and word in sentence were held constant.
(20) Most of the children's revisions involved changes in sentence constituents.