Sentences with phrase «by a conviction for»

When I was convicted of white collar crimes arising out of clients from my law practice, I went into sentencing looking at Guidelines of 121 to 151 months, which were driven by a conviction for conspiracy to commit money laundering with my clients.

In the Cairney case, this instruction was given, but by the conviction for manslaughter, provocation seems to be the controlling factor.

Not exact matches

Simply possessing any amount of heroin is punishable by a minimum $ 1,000 fine and up to a year in prison for a first offense; by a third conviction, that rises to a minimum of three months in jail (and potentially up to three years) and a minimum $ 5,000 fine.

She's more emblematic of the 1990s than of the 2000s, but remember this: Martha Stewart bet that by not appealing her conviction (for lying to prosecutors, in case you forgot) and by simply getting her five - month prison stretch done with in March 2005, she would minimize the damage to her reputation and quickly get her company back on track.

Revealing wrongdoing by the powerful requires absolute moral conviction with fearless disregard for consequences.

Dutch prosecutors have revealed that Slobodan Praljak died of a heart attack after drinking cyanide as his conviction and sentence for war crimes was affirmed by the the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday.

On Saturday the world enjoyed the long anticipated March for Science, which transformed Earth Day into a global defense of STEM, led by quietly spirited people undaunted by weather, buoyed by conviction, and waving an unlimited supply of wry, funny signs.

In a note on Friday, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote that the recent gain in the US oil - rig count is one reason why they are losing conviction in their call for a re-balancing of the market by mid-2017.

He recalled that in the one case that perhaps came closest — the show - trial conviction of several influential military and intelligence officers for drug trafficking and other crimes in 1989 — there was even some circumstantial evidence that the illicit activities had been tolerated by superiors.

Generally, the military is required to report felony - equivalent court - martial convictions for crimes that are punishable by more than one year in prison, and any convictions for domestic violence.

The prior three corporate convictions under the CFPOA have been achieved by the entering of guilty pleas.2 The Court also for the first time interpreted the meaning of key provisions in the statute, including clarifying that an inchoate offence of conspiracy exists under the CFPOA and in what circumstances a real and substantial connection will be required and found.

Zachary Cruz, brother of Parkland school shooter Nickolas Cruz, is being harassed by law enforcement — accused of terrorizing the community, arrested for a trivial infraction, held in jail after posting bond, and all but forced to take a conviction to avoid being unfairly jailed, according to his new lawyers.

The researchers also rated past presidential candidates» charisma, by combing their speeches for charismatic tactics - storytelling, expressing moral conviction, setting high goals.

During the employment period, FedEx also may terminate the officer's employment for «cause» (which includes any act of dishonesty by the officer intended to result in substantial personal enrichment, the conviction of the officer of a felony and certain material violations by the officer of his or her obligations under the MRA).

-- Michael Scherer spent hours in early February interviewing Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff who had his conviction pardoned by Trump and is now running for Arizona's Senate seat: «Each of the Republicans running for Senate in Arizona this year claims a special bond with President Trump, but only one describes it as a supernatural connection beyond rational explanation.

In January, Danish police made their second bitcoin conviction when a 20 - year - old was jailed by a court in Herning, Jutland, for making large - scale purchases of amphetamines, cocaine and ketamine on an online «dark web» marketplace.

The researchers also rated past presidential candidates» charisma, by combing their speeches for charismatic tactics — storytelling, expressing moral conviction, setting high goals.

And as I have been increasing concentration, it has become increasingly important for my ideas to be extremely high conviction, which is more attainable by focusing on businesses with strong market power.»

The US stock market had «rolled over» Monday / Tuesday last week... a move I had been waiting for... so I bought S+P puts but by the end of the week I had a «low conviction» level on the trade because the market hadn't broken down.

PEN International has slammed the conviction of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour, who was prosecuted by Israeli authorities for three social media posts, including a poem.

This essay grounds his conviction of the need for ontological reflection in Christology, by indicating how the New Testament itself supports its claims concerning the uniqueness and universality of Jesus Christ with an incipient ontology.

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that it is the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of conviction: as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith.

It is this conviction that Yahweh is recognized by his intervention on behalf of the poor that explains the denunciations in the Jeremiah traditions of the falsehood of Judaite faith.3 For prophets to speak words of peace in the name of Yahweh to a people who practice injustice is to speak a lie, for it is not Yahweh who has sent them (JFor prophets to speak words of peace in the name of Yahweh to a people who practice injustice is to speak a lie, for it is not Yahweh who has sent them (Jfor it is not Yahweh who has sent them (Jer.

The man, who happens to share the same name with TV's most noted meth dealer, is wanted by authorities for violating his probation for a past meth conviction.

Perle narrowly escaped conviction for trading intelligence secrets with Israel in the late 1970s, and Abrams was convicted (and pardoned by Reagan) in the Iran - Israel - contra weapons and financial scandal.

The primary reason for this in Protestant theology is the conviction that human nature has been utterly corrupted by Original Sin.

Inzoli, a friend of Francis's friends, who had been defrocked in 2012 after his conviction for child molestation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Others were groping down false paths toward the reform of an institutional Church that, for all its integration with culture and society, was becoming evangelically flaccid and sluggish, perhaps in the complacent conviction (not unlike that of the recent past) that the faith could be transmitted by cultural osmosis, as a kind of ethnic heritage.

Regardless, it's a sad day when a big portion of people lack RESPECT for the human who has strong convictions and abides by his convictions.

This is a decision made by real people with real names who have real personal and professional prices to pay for their convictions.

For his sense of rejection by life, it must substitute an inner conviction that he has been accepted by life.

But few Americans want student ministries punished for sticking by their convictions, especially about sexuality.

One of the crosses we are called to take up and bear for Christ by God's help is fidelity to conviction in spite of lifted eyebrows and the curt or sneering remarks of friends.

Many people sometimes, or for a while, act contrary to sincerely held convictions (by committing a sin), and other people, given time, come to recognise past behaviour as wrong (they may repent and convert).

And if many establishmentarian religionists were dragged screaming by the Enlightenment and practical necessity to grant religious freedom, some very firm believers, from colonial Baptists to Jesuit John Courtney Murray in the Second Vatican Council, also kept making the case for conviction blended with civility, commitment tempered with empathy.

In Mantel's case, when she began writing about Cromwell, by her own account she was «filled with glee and a sense of power,» a conviction that everything in her life had prepared her for this.

This is the right advice for men and women who stray, for those of either gender whose convictions are overcome by the temptation.

The essence of this, he wrote, «lies in the conviction which a Christian man possesses that every goad thing in him, every good thing he does, is somehow not wrought by himself but by God».23 Paul, for example, said, «By the grace of God I am what I am» (1 Coby himself but by God».23 Paul, for example, said, «By the grace of God I am what I am» (1 Coby God».23 Paul, for example, said, «By the grace of God I am what I am» (1 CoBy the grace of God I am what I am» (1 Cor.

It can be said, however, that the radical Christian invariably attempts by one means or another to return to the original message and person of Jesus with the conviction that such a return demands both an assault upon the established Church and a quest for a total or apocalyptic redemption.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

This is the case particularly as regards Catholic theology, since the Catholic faith implies the conviction of aplurality of human knowledge which is important also for this faith, a pluralism which is not simply administered by the Church.

Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Desmond Tutu, Dorothy Day, the French Protestants who resisted fascism and protected Jews, Buddhist monks in Vietnam and many, many others were led by their religious convictions to fight for human dignity and human rights.

But the deeper strain of Percy's Christian humanism sounds another chord altogether: the exultant conviction that we long for the grace of God not because of our own capacity for it, but because we have already been found by it.

Despite the strong public sentiment against such convictions after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, a perusal of public statements made by the leadership of the historic peace churches clearly indicates that, while they have repeatedly called for the perpetrators to be held accountable, they have not backed away from their commitment to nonviolence.

Perfect objectivity is not something we can achieve, but it is an ideal we can strive for by consciously opening ourselves to criticism and correction both by God, speaking through the text, and by the convictions of others.

A Clackamas County judge turned down a petition Monday for early release while the conviction of Shannon Mae Hickman, a member of the Followers of Christ church, is reviewed by the Oregon Court of Appeals.

Now it is up to the clergy, who more and more can begin to act on the convictions expressed by the U.N. report, which opens with the words «Alarmed by the threat to the very survival of mankind,» and proceeds:»... the accumulation of weapons, particularly nuclear weapons, today constitutes much more a threat than a protection for the future of mankind.

«A 1999 follow - up by William S Harris et al. attempted to replicate Byrd's findings under stricter experimental conditions, noting that the original research was not completely blinded and was limited to only «prayer - receptive» individuals (57 of the 450 patients invited to participate in the study refused to give consent «for personal reasons or religious convictions»).

In the 10 years leading up to the end of 2015, 13,835 offences were committed by those with a previous conviction, or caution for animal cruelty, including murder and rape.

The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.