What's the difference between sentence and verdict?

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.

Verdict


Definition:

  • (n.) The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause.
  • (n.) Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His verdict of her that "she danced on the graves of her husband's victims.
  • (2) The final verdict on Iran's nuclear programme will rest with the head of the IAEA, Mohammed ElBaradei, who will issue a crucial report to the agency's governing board next month.
  • (3) Thokozile Masipa, a 68-year-old former journalist who was only the second black woman to be appointed to the high court, was praised for her calm authority despite her controversial original verdict.
  • (4) Verdict Phil Spencer promised games and he delivered lots and lots of games, some of them really rather beautiful to look at.
  • (5) Dr Bhambra sustained the most dreadful life-changing injuries during a sustained racist attack on an innocent man, a member of a caring profession.” There was applause from the public gallery as the verdict was returned.
  • (6) Verdict Black Hawk Down tiptoes carefully around the facts when it deals with US troops, but its interpretation of history is flimsy, one-sided, and politically questionable.
  • (7) Dan Biers, the first secretary at the US embassy, said it was disappointed by the verdict.
  • (8) Unesco will give its verdict on the proposal when the world heritage committee meets in June this year.
  • (9) Right now, I feel free,” Nona Gaye said after the verdict.
  • (10) Cameron's team began spinning their verdict 15 minutes before the debate ended.
  • (11) The verdict in the Hayes trial suggested that the much-maligned organisation was finally making a mark under Green, just at it stepped up investigations into some the biggest companies in Britain, including Tesco, Rolls-Royce and Barclays.
  • (12) In a statement the family said they were left "extremely sad and disappointed" by the verdicts: "We appreciate the work and effort over the years since events on Broadwater Farm that night in trying to bring people to justice.
  • (13) The jurors' handbook for New York's southern district lists critical questions to ask potential jurors, such as whether they "have any personal interest in the case, or know of any reason why they cannot render an impartial verdict?"
  • (14) He expressed faith in Russian courts – which issue guilty verdicts in more than 99% of cases – and refused to mention Navalny by name.
  • (15) Here, we give our verdict on 10 new towers, built and imminent, counting down to the very worst offender … 10.
  • (16) Speaking to the Guardian, Ghavami’s brother Iman, 28, said the family felt “shattered” by the court verdict.
  • (17) "Following a meeting with the Secretary of State Ed Davey today, we are considering our position as clearly the challenge for us and the entire solar industry in the UK is within the detail of the CFD regime itself; which solar is now being forced into and more specifically, how this system is going to be implemented for solar; which clearly has different considerations to other technologies.” Updated at 5.53pm BST 5.48pm BST My verdict Our question today was probably misguided.
  • (18) So, as the Lib Dems head this weekend into their second conference in government, after an extraordinarily traumatic year, what is his verdict?
  • (19) Critical verdict The Tin Drum catapulted Grass to the forefront of European fiction and since then he has been Germany's "permanent Nobel candidate"; of the remainder of the Danzig trilogy, Cat and Mouse is the best regarded.
  • (20) The verdicts came as GSK finds itself the target of a separate corruption investigation in China after a whistleblower raised allegations of widespread bribery.