Article: The sentence in language and cognition.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Family outraged by minimal sentence (OPP killing of Native protester).
Wind Speaker;  August 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......an attempt to avoid punishment -- was sentenced to serve two years less a day in jail...interests will be served by jailing persons sentenced to less than two years in jail. A conditional sentence which allows that person to remain out...

Article: Prust, Samantha. A sentence a day.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
Kliatt;  July 1, 2007 ;     251 words ...PRUST, Samantha. A sentence a day. Cottonwood Press (109-B Cameron Drive...encourage careful proofreading by suggesting a sentence each day that needs to be corrected. Prust writes that each sentence to be corrected is short, playful, interesting...

Article: SENTENCE
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language;      700+ words ...SENTENCE The largest structural unit normally treated in GRAMMAR. The sentence is notoriously difficult to define; numerous definitions...offered and found wanting. The classical definition, that a sentence expresses a complete thought, dates from the first Western...

Article: My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy.(Book Review)
Poetry;  January 1, 2006 ;     353 words ...My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy, by Robert Bly. HarperCollins Publishers. $22.95. My Sentence is a collection of four dozen loose ghazals...given passage, as what he writes from sentence to sentence is figuratively cast, and...

Article: Sentence and solas in the writer's craft of The Canterbury Tales and The Peony Pavilion.
East-West Connections;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......the importance of Chaucer's criteria of sentence and solas set out in The Canterbury Tales...reading of The Peony Pavilion in terms of sentence and solas, but I do not claim that Tang...work that had, within its own culture, sentence and solas in comparable ways to that...

Article: Judge keeps same sentence for terror convict
AP Worldstream;  December 3, 2008 ;     371 words ......declined to change the 22-year prison sentence he imposed on an al-Qaida-trained Algerian...millennium. Prosecutors had requested that the sentence against Ahmed Ressam be increased to...judge showed him in 2005. The original sentence has been vacated by the 9th U.S. Circuit...

Article: Former Atlanta Mayor Appeals Sentence
AP Online;  June 8, 2007 ;     284 words ......Campbell argued on Friday that his prison sentence for tax evasion was unfairly tinged by...charges. Challenging the conviction and sentence at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...2006, has served 10 months of a 30-month sentence. During the same trial, the jury acquitted...

Article: Gitmo jury gives bin Laden driver light sentence
AP Online;  August 7, 2008 ;     300 words ......Laden's driver a stunningly lenient sentence on Thursday, making him eligible...despite the prosecutors' request for a sentence tough enough to frighten terrorists around the globe. Salim Hamdan's sentence of 5 1/2 years, including five years...

Article: Family criticises sentence given to speeding driver.
Bucks Herald (Aylesbury, England);  October 22, 2007 ;     488 words ......from Long Crendon has criticised the sentence handed out to her killer by a judge...after the sentencing, Mr Parish said the sentence was an insult to his wife's memory. We...he had done but we have all got a life sentence. Everything you read about people losing...

Article: commutation of sentence
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      98 words ...in criminal law, reduction of a sentence for a criminal act by action of the executive...government. Like pardon , commutation of sentence is a matter of grace, not of right; it...restrictions for the balance of his original sentence. Many states have statutes providing...

Article: Top judges increase sentence of Skegness sex abuser.
Skegness Standard (Skegness, England);  September 11, 2007 ;     387 words ......woman has had his 'unduly lenient' jail sentence increased by top judges. Peter Charles...mental disorder impeding choice. But that sentence was adjudged to be 'unduly lenient' by...Lord Justice Toulson, increasing the sentence, listed the aggravating features in the...

Article: Grammar guy: Sherry Martin succeeded at various ventures in mortgage lending, then followed his bliss into development of Sentence Says, a word game.(People)(Interview)
Los Angeles Business Journal;  October 4, 2004 ;     700+ words ......MarBan Industries Inc. in Chatsworth and launched Sentence Says, a sentence creation game. Since its May debut, the $29.95 game...motivating factor. Q: What goes into creating a sentence creation game? A: I started thinking of word games...

Article: Chavez praises sentence against ex-police
AP Worldstream;  April 6, 2009 ;     318 words ......President Hugo Chavez on Sunday praised a sentence against nine former police officials...public safety director Ivan Simonovis were sentenced to 30-year terms on Friday. Prosecutors...people. Six rank-and-file officers were sentenced to 17-year and 30-year terms for complicity...

Article: Madoff lawyer seeks 12-year sentence for client
AP Worldstream;  June 23, 2009 ;     700+ words ......doff's lawyer has told a judge scheduled to sentence the disgraced financier next week that...financially by Madoff's thievery said a sentence that short might only work if he was...guidelines call for Madoff to receive a life sentence. Madoff attorney Ira Sorkin said in court...