Sentences with phrase «at sentencing because»

In sum, I questions the assertion that federal judges «should not make policy judgments» at sentencing because: (1) such judgments seem inevitable and are clearly made by prosecutors in every criminal case, and (2) a fair reading of the text of 3553 (a) suggests that Congress has ordered federal judges to make individualized policy judgments in each and every sentencing.

The nature of child pornography related to a criminal conviction is relevant at sentencing because the more the nature of the content depicts violence or harm towards children, the more aggravating it will be for sentencing.

The government said Weiner's «widely - reported prior scandals» were not criminal in nature and did not involve minors but should be considered at sentencing because they reveal a familiar pattern.

Not exact matches

«Most people are in prison because they didn't know how to make enough money legally,» says Jackson, who has more than a decade left in his sentence at Green Haven.

«He should be brought back from Russia and given due process and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence for having put friends of mine, friends of yours, who serve in the military today at enormous risk because of the information he stole and then released to foreign powers,» Pompeo said on C - SPAN on Feb. 11.

Am I just supposed to cower to your views because you put exclamation points at the end of a sentence... really!

An AIDS diagnosis was still considered a death sentence then, because there was only one treatment at that time (AZT) and it was more of a stop - gap measure than anything else.

Because of the above (cf. first sentence of Chapter IV, «The Role of the Church in the Modern World», beginning at para 40) the Council wanted to foster a respectful «dialogue» with the great mass of people outside the Church «acknowledging their positive values» (57).

Just because I can't write two sentences without throwing banal childish insults at you doesn't necessarily mean that I'm a caustic, insincere troll.

Just because one can string together English words in a grammatical sentence and add a question mark at the end doesn't mean that such a construct carries any meaning.

Now, let's look at the second part of your sentence, where you said:» A group of muslims or a group of immigrants does not elicit the same kind of reasoned respose [sic] a group of KKK would, because muslims are not KKK and neither are immigrants.»

Because he was absolutely convinced that Jesus, who had been sentenced to death at the instigation of Paul's own friends for reasons of which he thoroughly approved, had encountered him personally with shattering effect.

John Fox, 66, who pled guilty in August to defrauding his wine customers at Berkeley's bankrupt Premier Cru of $ 45 million, got a shorter prison sentence because he paid for sex...

I blame this on lack of coffee at the time the original post was written (and because he was mentioned along side Prince in the same sentence).

No ones talking abut the fact that Clay Matthews name was in the Al Jazeera investgation because all it takes is one look at the guy to realize that he either takes no steroids whatsoever and is extremly clean - cut, or he takes all the steroids in te world and would punch you in the face and kill you in a washing machine in you mentoned his name in the same sentence as «Torodal».

If spu do this at their first ever opportunity, I don't know how to finish this sentence because it's just plain unthinkable.

Because you've uttered that sentence at least once in your motherhood journey already, so you might as well read Go the F**k to Sleep to your darling baby.

My husband would laugh at me right now because I've just used almost all of my very favorite words to describe life in just one sentence:)

Because, yeah, it is helpful to know what's supposed to be happening when in a general sense so you can have realistic expectations (I remember thinking that a one - year - old could probably speak in complete sentences back before I had one of my own), but at the same time kids are so varied and variable that you can really make yourself worry over things that don't mean anything.

Billy couldn't construct coherent sentences but could make his needs known with phrases, «he's just not a highly verbal child»; Johnny doesn't like to play ball games because he always swings or kicks at the wrong time; finds math more challenging than his younger siblings, gets lost easily and confuses left and right a lot.

When friends start to avoid you because they don't want to hear about your baby talking in full sentences at 6 weeks, you may want to see if you are doing enough personal development.

The reports of overzealous officials were legion, from the dog sentenced to death because its owner removed its muzzle so it could be sick, to a boxer - collie sentenced to death for barking at a postman.

«But because of more stringent laws at a time when society was different, courts overcharged people and maximized their sentences beyond what is considered reasonable by a civilized society.»

The criminal prosecutions spawned by the CityTime case reached a quiet denouement when a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Carl Bell, a computer specialist at the center of the scheme, to three years» probation, showing leniency because he had given crucial help to investigators.

I didn't intend that the next President of the United States would follow my advice but I think he must have done because, apart from literally a couple of sentences in the speech which could be counted as essential tribute (to past Presidents and God) every single sentence in the speech utilizes one of these devices and some of the more florid sentences in the speech use as many as four devices at once!

It weakens the bill in at least two areas, because it does not apply to people sentenced to less than a year in jail, and because the child exemption clause could apply to children who are not family members.

Mr Justice Treacy said Gary Dobson and David Norris would have received a life sentence of 30 years at least if they had committed the crimes as adults now, because changes in the law in 2003 introduced racial aggravation to sentencing.

«I say this not because you are a survivor, but because you are a proud one at that and also trying to send a message that breast cancer is not a death sentence.

In a policy shift, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has decided to commute the sentences of two drug offenders, and will pardon two others who have finished their terms but are at risk of being deported because of their convictions.

«My heart is heavy every time I hear that a young person has been incarcerated at Rikers Island because I know that people with smaller crimes end up staying there for a longer sentence than is necessary,» said Iesha Sekou, founder and CEO of Street Corner Resources.

Nanotubes are nine times as strong as steel and can transmit 1,000 times as much electrical current as copper, but they are difficult to manipulate because each tube is just 1/350, 000 as wide as the period at the end of this sentence.

Abdelli - Beruh says the creak is unlikely to damage vocal cords because speakers didn't creak continuously or even at the end of every sentence.

Attaching object clauses to attitude verbs such as «know» or «think» is an intensional construction: In the sentence «Fred knows that the conman is from Wiesbaden», substituting the place name is not necessarily legitimate because Fred might have wrong ideas (or no idea at all) about Hessen's capital city.

I write because I am good at it and terrible, all in one, broken sentence.

At this moment, you may dismiss the power of this sentence because it sounds too «out there.»

Teff nutrients concentrate in the germ and the bran and because it is so tiny, smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, the germ and bran make up almost the whole grain, making it impractical to refine, so any form of teff is a whole - grain product, by default.

I only say surprisingly because you'd take one look at me and assume that the thought of leaving my heels behind for a weekend would be a tantamount to a death sentence.

Aw, I was actually a bit disappointed at this post because after the first picture I expected more pictures or at least a longer story — one picture (even though it's beautiful) and 2 sentences really don't work for me, it's not the best way for followers to «live» into the post, let themselves be carried away.

Ill save you a lot of time, because I know you're just going to look at my pictures and MAYBE read the first few sentences of my summary, and decide whether or not to message me...

It took me far too long to read Edward St. Aubyn's five «Patrick Melrose» novels — perhaps because, around the time that At Last, the final installment of the pentalogy, appeared in 2012, a friend described St. Aubyn's sentences to me as «cruelty crystals.»

So their lectures become very confused because, from a visual perspective, they're putting their periods at the front of their sentences, and nobody understands them.

It was good because at a glance the children were able to see the definition, see the word used in a sentence and they were also able to see synonyms.

Looking at the choices, I'm pretty sure the sentence has to start with «No» because that is the only word which is in title case.

I call it «Oral ping - pong translation» because they do it orally, Partner A challenging Partner B with a sentence and showing the correct answer to provide them with feedback and to award points (3 for perfect sentence, 2 for one mistake only, 1 if there are mistakes but at least the verb is correctly formed).

At the beginning of the year, Kirkpatrick gives her students a list of sentence starters and connectors such as «I agree / disagree because,» «I can connect to your statement because,» and «Can you clarify what you mean by.»

Not only did you understand more of the sentence at the beginning, but the gap got wider in the course of your reading the sentence, because you understood more of it.

The skill of Preview skimming, which requires students to highlight (or, in the example above, record) the first sentence of each paragraph, can help those who are struggling with reading comprehension because it reduces the amount of text they must process at any given time.

Because it can be difficult to immediately come up with interesting sentences that provide context for target word use, we suggest that teachers write them at the start of each week as part of lesson planning.

Because it deals with the nitty - gritty details at a sentence - by - sentence level, line editing is usually very extensive and can include 1,000 - 3,000 + tracked changes.

That's because they're circular — the guru who espouses them is saying the same thing in different ways at the beginning and end of a sentence.