Sentences with phrase «handed down years»

Each of the offenders who walked free is serving a sentence handed down years ago that is longer than it would be if they were sentenced today.

Each of the offenders who walked free was serving a sentence handed down years ago that was longer than it would be if they were sentenced today.

And a major acting triumph for Dern, hands down this year's sentimental favorite for awards season.

Mandela's life imprisonment sentence was handed down a year into her studies.

For example, one key indicator of success will be reducing the number of suspensions and expulsions that are handed down each year, and lowering the disparate impact those suspensions and expulsions have on students of color.

An article I wrote for the e-newsletter of IMS ExpertServices looks back over the first six months of 2009 and highlights the five most important expert rulings handed down this year — at least so far: Top Five Expert Rulings (So Far) of 2009.

An article I wrote for the e-newsletter of IMS ExpertServices looks back over the first six months of 2009 and highlights the five most important expert rulings handed down this year — at least so far: Top -LSB-...]

In a key sentencing decision handed down this year, the United States Supreme Court held that the Ex Post Facto Clause is violated when a defendant is sentenced under provisions of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines promulgated after he committed the crime and those new provisions result in an increased risk of greater punishment.

A 1987 California decision led directly to the New Jersey decision in the Green Party case handed down this year.

Not exact matches

Fortune broke down some of the highlights of this year's festival, including a variety of virtual reality - focused panels and the premiere screening of Netflix's (NFLX) Pee - Wee Herman film reboot, while corporate sponsors such as McDonald's (MCD) and Samsung will also be on hand with big events.

Tesla had $ 2.67 billion in cash on hand at the end of Q1, down from $ 3.37 billion at the end of last year.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in January received Momcilo Krajisnik, a wartime Bosnian Serb leader who was released after serving two thirds of a 20 - year jail sentence handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague.

Two years ago, at the Venture Capital Challenge organized by the famous Silicon Valley VC Draper Fischer Jurveston, the hands - down winner of the $ 250,000 prize was a new sleep - monitoring gizmo called NeuroVigil.

(On the other hand, Berkshire's biggest loser, Liberty Media (lmck), down 53 % in the past year, was Weschler's doing as well, according to the same analysis.)

On the other hand, Lucas and Lee Brown, 22 - year - old twin brothers and students at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, made the decision to close down a fashion business they'd been running from February to October 2005 when it became clear that their inventory wasn't selling.

Blatter had in any case been due to step down early next year, but the 90 - day suspension handed down Thursday all but ends the 80 year - old Swiss's tenure immediately.

Stringent Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules prohibiting the use of unmanned aircraft for commercial use has largely kept American companies from leveraging drone technology to their advantage, but that's rapidly changing in the Arctic, where a series of FAA decisions handed down in the past year are easing restrictions on commercial drone flights.

Tesla had $ 2.67 billion in cash on hand at the end of the first quarter, down from the $ 3.37 billion at the end of last year.

Howard Schultz, the leader of Starbucks, said on Thursday he would step down as chief executive next year, handing over to his personally selected successor the management of the company he built into the world's largest coffee business, with over 25,000 stores in 75 countries.

On my uncles farm 400 fully grown citrus trees were cut down by the «war vets» because he refused to hand over the years tobacco crop to them.

The 80 - year - old ban on private companies advertising their fundraising efforts lifts on Monday, and the industry is largely cautious, waiting for the SEC to hand down more details on how the change wi...

Under the rules handed down by the Fed last year, the cap for debit - card fees was set at 21 cents per transaction, plus 0.05 percent of the value of the purchase and a 1 - cent fraud - prevention fee for the big banks.

For his MBA Show episodes, he dresses in a gray flannel suit, a 30 - year - old hand - me down from his father.

For instance, HSBC gave the Chinese yuan 4/10 for aggressiveness in 2013, down from 6/10 a year ago, as the People's Bank of China becomes increasingly «hands off» and moves the yuan towards convertibility.

Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, so I sit down twice a year with last year's calendar in hand.

A few years before my own experience with a catcall, I saw a young woman walking down a Chicago street with a milkshake in hand.

Go running (or in my case, biking) around town chasing down investors and startups all at the same time, simultaneously pitching your strategy and executing it, taking money from one hand and putting in the other as you both fundraise and prove out your strategy by deploying capital... and forget having an income for at least a year.

The industry is waiting on the SEC to hand down rules for Title 3 of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or JOBS Act, signed into law in April last year.

The move is most likely in preparation to hand over control of his sprawling fortune to his son, but the 87 - year - old doesn't have any plans of slowing down just yet.

A changing of the guard is under way at prominent CBD agency Burgess Rawson, with founding partner and joint managing director Geoff Potter stepping down from the position he has held for 21 years and handing over the reins to fellow joint managing director, Andrew McKerracher.

The SIC 2018's faculty was truly exceptional; even John quipped, «It was hands - down the best collection of speakers I have ever gathered in the 15 - year history of the SIC.»

And, heading into an election year, Clark is not going to bite the hand that feeds her by turning down Kinder Morgan.

On the other hand, if the market is down significantly from its historical high levels or has been and still is falling fast when you retire, take your withdrawals for living expenses from your four years of living expenses cash reserve.

On the other hand, involuntary part - time work is down a solid 1.2 million over the past year.

I've written a lot this year about the unwillingness of many on Bay Street to accept that Poloz isn't going to take them by the hand and walk them down a well - marked, interest - rate path.

The helping hand from censors is in stark contrast to Baidu's woes two years ago, when regulators cracked down on its advertising practices, gutting its marketing client base and bringing its revenue growth to a grinding halt.

I love volunteering at their school and we love to participate in fun runs and 5k's together (my 8 year old beats me every time, hands down).

After 10 years at the helm of China's Communist Party, Hu Jintao is scheduled to step down this week as the party's general secretary and hand over China's control to his designated successor, Xi Jinping.

By a show of hands how many people would be happy to have only been down 6.8 % this year?

Also, morality is not external (if byexternal that you mean something that you can know is right or wrong has to be determined by a larger body or set of policies created by someone else many years ago to be official), and morality does not necessarily flow from religion (plenty of Catholic priests, Islamic Imams, Protestant preachers wave their hands high in the air in the afternoon, at praise time, and when the lights go down they crawl on their bellies, and hands and knees like snakes and dogs).

Everything they wrote was either a 30 year old story handed down to them, something they heard on the street, or their own opinions, or in the case of Revelation, a really, really bad acid trip.

What's more, those stories were handed down for hundreds of years * before * the developed a coherent writing system!

I often meet abortion rights advocates who honestly thought that the national controversy over abortion would simply melt away within a few years of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.

There is very good reason to expect a decision mandating same - sex marriage coast - to - coast in the Court's next term, with a decision to be handed down just a year from now, almost to the day.

So many of you babble the same rhetorical information that has been handed down for years.

In other words, if Moses lived about 1300 BC, then the text had been handed down for over a thousand years.

In fact it would explain how such an original revelation could endure through the long period of early man, some thousands of years, that is, because the content which was handed down could be grasped perpetually anew.

Two years ago, I endured what was, hands down, the most painful season of my life.

Today, we must claim back the power to look at the Bible with our own eyes and to stress that divine immanence is within us, not in something sealed off and handed down from almost 2000 years ago.6

In this case it is not easy to see how such a primitive revelation could have been handed down during two million years.