(1) Investigators have frequently noted a leniency bias in mock jury research, in which deliberation appears to induce greater leniency in criminal mock jurors.
(2) SC Johnson, Colgate and Henkel, which alerted the competiton watchdog, will benefit from varying degrees of leniency, with Mr Muscle maker SC Johnson receiving total immunity.
(3) The Valencia official, who is apparently known in La Liga for his leniency, was marked out after drawing regular praise from the Portuguese over his three-year spell coaching Real Madrid.
(4) The referee, Martin Atkinson, could feasibly have shown four red cards and his leniency was starting to feel absurd when Danny Welbeck lunged in two-footed on Cesc Fàbregas during the closing exchanges and it was deemed worthy only of a booking.
(5) There was similar leniency from Alberto Mallenco at the opposite end as Gordon Greer was late on Robert Lewandowski.
(6) On Tuesday Khamenei used the expression "heroic leniency", which is being interpreted as a euphemism for a softer stance on foreign policy.
(7) Before sentencing, the soldiers' private lawyers pleaded for leniency, saying some of the defendants supported aged parents, others were the sole breadwinners in their family, and some of them had served in the army for 10 years, including in foreign peacekeeping missions.
(8) Although there have been a string of precedents in which clubs lost points for selecting ineligible players, Premier League rules allow scope for leniency in situations such as Ji's which involve a lack of international clearance.
(9) UBS, as the first bank to reveal the existence of investigations into Libor , is receiving leniency for co-operating with inquiries.
(10) I tried to make small talk with him to buy some leniency, telling him I was just a reporter.
(11) There have been a number of disturbing instances recently of such leniency, but at the moment they are not offences that can be referred.
(12) But the commutations are particularly significant because they are the first issued under new guidelines announced this year designed to cut costs by reducing the nation’s bulging prison population and grant leniency to nonviolent drug offenders sentenced to double-digit terms.
(13) Analysts say her freedom provided a way for the politicised court to show leniency in a case that won attention around the world.
(14) Arsenal's manager felt Naismith and Leighton Baines should also have been cautioned for fouls on Mikel Arteta and Santi Cazorla respectively but leniency from the referee, Martin Atkinson, was the least of his worries.
(15) Agüero had gone round Trapp before being taken down and the Spanish official plainly thought the angle the ball was heading meant there should be some leniency.
(16) Kilmister adds: "We have tried to argue that this [leniency deal] is totally undeserved and unjust and an insult to the elderly people who have suffered financial exploitation at Peverel's hands."
(17) It appeared, however, that there was more leniency toward time off from work to accompany children to appointments in the military population.
(18) My respected sir, I’m asking for forgiveness and leniency from you so that my sentence can be lightened.” LBH Masyarakat (@LBHMasyarakat) Here is a personal letter from Merri Utami to President Joko Widodo, asking for forgiveness.
(19) New York prosecutors detailed the cooperation of Hector Xavier Monsegur for the first time in court papers while asking a judge to reward him with leniency at his sentencing on Tuesday.
(20) In a final overall analysis, older adults were more lenient than the young in memory failure judgments, and their differential leniency was most apparent in judgments of the serious vignettes.
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.