Sentences with phrase «difference in sentencing»

I love that they highlight the difference in sentencing guidelines between powder and crack cocaine.

The literature review discusses gender differences in sentencing, and concludes that males receive harsher sentences than females.

Even minute difference in sentence structure can harm the central idea of a piece of writing.

Violence in an offender's criminal history does not appear to account for any of the demographic differences in sentencing.

* Why an analysis of the sentencing practices of judges in two courthouses no more than 60 miles apart reflects big differences in sentence outcomes is a grave cause for concern.

The authors then ran a statistical analysis (once again using TRAC resources) to determine if there were differences in sentence lengths between judges nominated by Republican Presidents and judges nominated by Democratic Presidents.

Not exact matches

20 people in the same room can't pass a single sentence around a room playing telephone and these nutjobs think that these stories somehow were accurately communicated with NO alteration for language differences, or perception differences for hundreds of years... I suppose they all thought EXACTLY alike...

A few simple sentences explaining why the court in Dresden was Catholic while Saxony was Lutheran (because in 1697 the elector of Saxony, Friedrich August, opportunistically converted to Catholicism in order to be elected king of Poland), the differences between Calvinist and Lutheran realms, why Leipzig was a commercial center, and other such matters would have been helpful.

The difference in times in Mark 15:25 and John 19:14 are likely because Mark was recording time in a Hebrew fashion (3rd hour from sunup = ~ 9 am) and John was recording the time of Pilates sentence as Roman time (measured from midnight) 6th hour was 6 am with the crucifixion to follow 3 hours later.

With all these differences it is hardly surprising that ministers in the nonliturgical churches, when conducting communion services, often confuse and combine the different accounts and even insert sentences or phrases not found in any of them.

It may seem like nit - picking to you, but the word «exactly» in the sentence, «I can tell you that the God of Scripture is exactly as I described Him» really does make a difference.

@Tesla, the difference between Rush and Obama is Obama dabbled in crack but has never said drug addicts belong in prison with long sentences.

In Part II of the essay, «The Negation of Sexual Difference,» he lifts sentences and paragraphs from a 2010 interview with Béatrice Bourges, president of the Collective for Children and an opponent of same - sex marriage and adoption.

See there is liter ally NO difference between using the word «guy» and the word «girl» in this sentence EXCEPT for the fact that she is ACTUALLY a girl.

In one key study, researchers at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin found that a simple, one - sentence note of encouragement made a huge difference in academic outcomes for African - American students, who often have fraught power relationships with teacherIn one key study, researchers at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin found that a simple, one - sentence note of encouragement made a huge difference in academic outcomes for African - American students, who often have fraught power relationships with teacherin academic outcomes for African - American students, who often have fraught power relationships with teachers.

You may have found yourself rereading the previous sentence, wondering about the difference in capitalization, maybe even concluding that I'm probably referring to being a Christian Scientist.

«For example, the difference between a yes / no question and a simple declarative sentence in ASL is indeed on the face (in the eyebrows and the head tilt),» Tom Humphries, a deaf associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of many books about the deaf, wrote via e-mail.

Lum cautions that in the real world, other factors besides sentence duration likely contribute to differences in incarceration rates.

With no differences between the two hypothetical groups other than the length of the sentence, even 3 extra months in prison led to higher incarceration rates over time.

(I just deleted a paragraph before this one, only to add in this sentence to make up the difference.)

emoticon can make a big difference in the way you come across — exclamation marks, the odd word in capital letters or ellipses at the end of a sentence can all give your messages more personality.

One egotistical sentence in your description could be the difference of whether or not you seal down a date this weekend.

The difference between the movie you just saw in your head after you read that sentence and what transpires onscreen, however, is huge, and the bulk of said difference comes courtesy of the two young leads.

Lesson 2: Using «Near Doubles» Lesson 3: Pairs that make 10 when adding Lesson 4: Idea of Difference Lesson 5: Words about Subtraction Lesson 6: Using addition and subtraction with shopping Lesson 7: Identifying Multiples Lesson 8: Making Rectangular Arrays Lesson 9: Multiplication Sentences Lesson 10: The Multiplication Symbols Lesson 11: Number Properties Years ago I made a lot of interesting Maths PowerPoint lessons, and then left them for 10 years in a draw.

, A short answer game) c. Labelling activities (Geography and countries, Dinner's ready, Spooky Halloween) d. Team games (Blockbuster, Slapping the board game, Boardgame, Puzzle, Spot the differences, The dictionary race, Disappearing game, The first one who can name...) e. Drawing and settling down activities (Read and draw, Write and draw, Word search, From English to French, The hidden sentences, Coloring activity, Pictionary, Back - to - back descriptions) f. Activities in pairs (Battleships, Family tree, Matching up, Draw your family tree, Guessing games, Snakes and ladders, Noughts and crosses, Ping - pong, Filling - gap, Role - play, Classification) g. Engaging everyone (One question / one student, Who's my next victim, Mind map, Questions in a hat, Survey, Fashion show, Let's debate, Counting game, Hot - air balloon, Find the mistakes, Post-it game, Dominos) h.

Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources prepare students for answering Q3 (language) and Q4 (comparison) and cover the following: - analysis of vocabulary - analysis of sentence forms - analysis of language techniques - explore audience and purpose - study of model answers - exploring the effect of language - improving exam responses using mark schemes - explore perspective - understand the difference between synthesis and comparison - form comparisons between texts - practice timed responses Regular assessments are included to assess students ability in true or false and synthesis tasks.

Introduction to logic in maths; difference between a sentence and a statement.

There's a bigger difference in the way sentences are constructed in these two pieces.

The student may be confused about the difference between mode and median or be struggling with what makes a good lead sentence; whatever it is, students get a chance to let you know their bumps in the road.

The photo on the right shows the difference between the use of «is» in a metaphorical and non-metaphorical sentence.

MyThesis.Net are often used in the same sentence and for many people they mean the same thing, but there is quite a big difference between them.

Observe the difference between the Italian sentence and the one in English.

The main difference between voice search and typed - in search is the length of the query and the nature of the sentence.

And this is coming from a guy who can't put words in the right order, can't tell the difference between «should» and «shouldn't», and can't split two unrelated sentences into two separate lines?

But it stands out from the identikit crowd (try explaining the difference between a PlayStation 4 and an Xbox One in two sentences), something wild and unexpected.

Remember, one of the big differences between an accurate rumour and a wild guess tends to be summed up in a single sentence:

I don't understand Paul Birch to disagree with the interpretation as I stated it in the last sentence, but he objects to my calling such a small kinetic - energy difference a temperature difference.

I just saw an article today that mentioned in one sentence that NASA now seems to understand this albedo difference (or at least has me convinced they have an inkling of it).

The problem is in the difference between constructive criticism («hey, I think X is a better way to describe process Y than what the IPCC said... I'm going to publish a paper saying so, and give talks about it, and maybe it X will be reflected in the next IPCC report) to destructive criticism («hey, one sentence in one chapter in WGII was wrong about the melting of Himalayan glaciers.

And on your thread in reply to my comment you called acid rain damage deniers crackpots, so there is a definitional difference here for sure.Your last two sentences are key, as I think it would be part of Judy's case that the community are really pretty terrible at that — to the point of being dogmatic, perhaps?

The only mention of RCS in the Hantemirov's Thesis abstract is this sentence: To remove the age trend, a method of regional curves (Briffa et al., 1992), was used as which maintains the differences between the growth rate of trees that existed in various climatic epochs, i.e., allows to detect long - term fluctuations in wood increases, exceeding the lifetime of individual trees.

In Marcott's original email to me, he had referred to the above paragraph in the article, arguing that the above sentence (which stated that the difference between reconstruction versions was not robust constituted a statement that the reconstruction itself in the modern portion was not statistically robusIn Marcott's original email to me, he had referred to the above paragraph in the article, arguing that the above sentence (which stated that the difference between reconstruction versions was not robust constituted a statement that the reconstruction itself in the modern portion was not statistically robusin the article, arguing that the above sentence (which stated that the difference between reconstruction versions was not robust constituted a statement that the reconstruction itself in the modern portion was not statistically robusin the modern portion was not statistically robust.

She explores how this difference might come into play in the context of self - defense and hate crime sentence enhancements.

The chief difference is that in the United States (which has a Common Law Structure) the judge usually does not decide the case, but interprets the law (Trier of Law) and with a few exceptions, will determine the sentence once guilt is found.

Booker is careful to emphasize that unreasonableness review will play a central role in advancing Congress's original aim in enacting the SRA because it will «tend to iron out sentencing differences».

Another difference is apparent in sentencing for these offences.

[74] Publicly accessible records of this Court demonstrate that the failure to implement and adhere to an objective protocol for the random assignment of judges has resulted in significant discrepancies in both the number of sentencing panels on which some judges of the Court sit and a marked difference in the number of sentence appeals heard by certain justices of the Court as compared with their colleagues.

As Berman notes, from Madoff's perspective, there's little practical difference between a 150 - year sentence or a 25 - year sentence because under either scenario, the 71 - year - old Madoff will die in prison.

Like including only one space after sentence - ending periods, I doubt using full justification in a brief submitted to a judge who prefers left justification will make any difference, but it can not hurt to follow the judge's justification preference.

Differences in views between whites and nonwhites are less pronounced on drug crime sentencing guidelines compared with their views of the criminal justice system's handling of crime more generally.