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Sentence meaning
The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. | The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. | A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
Example sentences (20)
The elements which follow the colon may or may not be a complete sentence: since the colon is preceded by a sentence, it is a complete sentence whether what follows the colon is another sentence or not.
The Crown asked for a three-year prison sentence, while the defence asked the judge to consider a two-year sentence, or a conditional sentence order of two years less a day, followed by three years of supervised probation.
A sentence can have a structure in which what follows the verb is another sentence: Dorothy thinks witches are dangerous, in which the sentence witches are dangerous occurs in the larger one.
Different languages use different sequences for the logical elements within a sentence and a translator presented with a multiple clause sentence that is half translated is less likely to completely rebuild a sentence.
If "this sentence is false" is true, then the sentence is false, but if the sentence states that it is false, and it is false, then it must be true, and so on.
Semantic theory of truth main The semantic theory of truth has as its general case for a given language: :'P' is true if and only if P where 'P' refers to the sentence (the sentence's name), and P is just the sentence itself.
That theorem shows that, when a sentence is independent of a theory, the theory will have models in which the sentence is true and models in which the sentence is false.
Then, it "averages" each sentence by adding the scores of its words and dividing the sum by the number of words in the sentence - the higher the average, the higher the rank of the sentence.
There is also a potential for the translator to deal with the text mechanically sentence-by-sentence, instead of focusing on how each sentence relates to those around it and to the text as a whole.
The sentence that someone be punished in such a manner is referred to as a death sentence, whereas the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution.
This sentence does not directly refer to itself, but when the stated transformation is made the original sentence is obtained as a result, and thus this sentence indirectly asserts its own unprovability.
Translators usually proceed sentence by sentence, although the translation of one sentence may depend on the translation of the surrounding ones.
Adjourning sentence after Al Bared was convicted of preparing for terrorism between January 1, 2022 and January 31 this year, Judge Paul Farrer KC said: “The court is going to have to consider whether the appropriate sentence is one of life imprisonment.
Adrian Searle, the director of the National Economic Crime Centre, said while the maximum sentence for fraud is currently 10 years, the average sentence is around two years and even in the most serious cases is still only four years.
An appeal to refer the sentence of two brothers who sexually abused a young girl over a period of more than five years to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence Scheme has been rejected.
Cheryl continued: “I laughed when I heard he had appealed his sentence, I just thought it was a joke, we went right through court and then he never turned up for his sentence.
Cocroft highlighted Morgan’s absence of remorse and noncompliance, leading to her decision to impose the maximum sentence of 14 to 19½ years in prison, which includes the maximum life sentence.
Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence Joseph Biggs to 33 years in prison and they are seeking a 30-year sentence for co-defendant Zachary Rehl.
He stole the items while under the conditions of a prior suspended sentence, but magistrates chose to impose a further four-week suspended jail sentence and a £154 victim surcharge.
He took her mental health into account while deciding the sentence, and told Smith, of Waterfield Road, she could expect to serve at two-thirds of her sentence before being eligible for release on licence.