Sentences with phrase «increases in sentences»

In the case at bar, the Supreme Court overturned an increase in sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal, noting that «if Parliament hopes to sustain mandatory minimum penalties for offences that cast a wide net, it should consider narrowing their reach so that they only catch offenders that merit the mandatory minimum sentences.»

While it is to be hoped that increase in sentencing encourages safer driving, many will think that this is unlikely.

When allowing an appeal against an extended sentence the Court of Appeal was not bound to impose an indeterminate sentence as such a sentence would amount to an increase in sentence and it was precluded from doing that by virtue of Criminal Appeal Act 1968, s 11 (3).

The criminal law has statutorily recognized the concept of breach of marital trust, in s. 718.2 of the Criminal Code of Canada, by requiring the sentencing judge to consider an increase in sentence where, as an aggravating circumstance, the offender abused his spouse or common - law partner when committing the offence.

Not exact matches

Considering that President Barack Obama commuted just one person's sentence in his first term, the clemency initiative has significantly increased Tyler's previously slim chances of getting out.

As a matter of fact, there is no point in denying that by all means clichés surely increase the number of words in the text, which is clearly seen in this sentence.

If they understand your startup and you grab their attention in a few sentences it greatly increases the odds of them replying back to you.

«Furthermore, although the average sentence lengths (conditional on case, defendant and judge attributes) do not differ by defendant race in the absence of a football effect, it appears that an upset LSU football game loss increases the disposition length (sentence severity) of black defendants more severely in comparison to white defendants.

When Martha Stewart emerged from her short prison sentence in 2005, it was to find that her fortune had increased by $ 200 million.

ICC stated: «In cases where a minor, a woman, or a person from the Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe communities were involved, the prison sentence would increase to four years and the fine to 100,000 Rupees.»

The increase in non-voluntary euthanasia and the introduction of child euthanasia in Belgium are clear signs of how easily these bills, with an initial narrow remit, are rapidly modified to become a death sentence for anyone of limited economic value or potential.

Sentences like this: «In nature where the laws of thermodynamics dictate that everything is descending into chaos, how do we rationalize the increasing order?»

Also, after proving at the 95 % confidence level that there is increased risk for the baby, their very last sentence ends with, «however, there may be some increased risk for infants among births that occur in the home.»

The second sentence in the abstract does state: «Analysis of combined data from all 8 studies showed a three-fold increase in risk of neonatal deaths for homebirth attended by midwives, compared to hospital births.»

Matt, in the article Dr. Amy says «THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THOSE CLAIMS»: maybe I'm wrong, but to my non-native understanding, this sentence doesn't necessarily mean «there is no evidence at all», but rather: any evidence there might be, it is not enough to support claims such as «increased medicalization of childbirth may be having severe consequences on the life - long health of our children... What's more, it could be having a devastating effect on the future of our entire species».

Judicial proceedings started to increase in the weeks following the attack and attracted heavy sentencing — even imprisonment.

Even his handling of the Nazanin Zaghari - Ratcliffe case, where his comments risked increasing a British citizen's prison sentence in Iran, didn't hinder his career.

The Chief Inspector's report also notes that by January 2011, over 1,600 foreign national prisoners were detained under immigration powers at the end of their custodial sentence pending deportation, with the average length of detention increasing from 143 days in February 2010 to 190 days in January 2011.

[26] He believes in tougher sentences for criminals — but has also supported the coalition government's efforts to increase the number of treatment and rehabilitation centres.

It was hoped the Clarke plan would reduce the length of sentences dished out in order make large savings and increase convictions.

12:27 - Tory MP Richard Graham calls for an increase in the maximum sentence for dangerous driving, and gets a strong response from both the government and opposition benches.

But in the court of appeal the panel of five judges backed whole - life terms, increasing murderer Ian McLoughlin's 40 - year jail sentence to a whole - life term and dismissing an appeal by murder Ian Newell.

Less controversially, the counterterrorism bill also enables post-charge questioning of suspects, increased sentencing for general offences linked to terrorism and increased use of DNA evidence in terror offences.

There will be a one - off increase in prison numbers as people serve their sentences.

Another provision in the violent crime reduction bill would increase the maximum sentence for carrying a blade or point in public from two to four years, and Mr Johnson said the combination of measures would act as a deterrent to young people.

Be careful — look at this YouGov poll which shows a majority of people would support renationalisation of the utilities, increasing the minimum wage to # 10 and the top rate of tax to 60 %... but also a total ban on immigration and benefits for anyone who turns down a job, making life mean life with no parole in prison sentences and stopping all international aid.

The day before Datre Jr. and Grabe were sentenced last week, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone signed legislation that increases penalties for dumping in county parks, including up to a year in jail for people caught dumping waste and construction debris on county parkland, roads or rights of way.

New measures included in the Immigration Bill currently progressing through Parliament will make it easier to prosecute employers using illegal labour, increasing the maximum prison sentence to five years and with powers to close down businesses which continue to flout the rules.

In New York State, the majority of gun crimes are committed by criminals who are using illegal guns, and therefore he believes we should take steps to curb illegal gun use by increasing penalties and enacting mandatory minimum sentences.»

Mr. Spota and members of several families, including a relative of Scott Wayte — the Brookhaven man who was struck and killed in 2012 while crossing East Main Street in downtown Riverhead — held a press conference in Hauppauge Tuesday, saying they want the state to increase the maxiumn sentence for fatal hit - and - run crimes from seven years to 15 years in prison.

Conservative candidates across the country promised in our election manifesto that we would be tough on crime, increase the prison population to 96,000 by 2014 and that «anyone convicted of a knife crime can expect to face a prison sentence.»

In statements after the Newtown shooting on Friday, IDC Leader Senator Jeff Klein said we must «continue to reevaluate the place of guns in our state and our society» Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos, who will jointly lead the new Senate governing coalition with Senator Klein, says he's interested in pursuing measures to «curb illegal gun use by increasing penalties and enacting mandatory minimum sentences»In statements after the Newtown shooting on Friday, IDC Leader Senator Jeff Klein said we must «continue to reevaluate the place of guns in our state and our society» Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos, who will jointly lead the new Senate governing coalition with Senator Klein, says he's interested in pursuing measures to «curb illegal gun use by increasing penalties and enacting mandatory minimum sentences»in our state and our society» Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos, who will jointly lead the new Senate governing coalition with Senator Klein, says he's interested in pursuing measures to «curb illegal gun use by increasing penalties and enacting mandatory minimum sentences»in pursuing measures to «curb illegal gun use by increasing penalties and enacting mandatory minimum sentences».

Another strategy people use, the researchers found, is that when presented with an increasing proportion of seemingly nonsensical sentences, they actually infer lower amounts of «noise» in the language.

In fact, the study found that 15 percent of convicted offenders received a prison sentence in 1981, which increased to 20 percent in 1995, and reached nearly 30 percent in 201In fact, the study found that 15 percent of convicted offenders received a prison sentence in 1981, which increased to 20 percent in 1995, and reached nearly 30 percent in 201in 1981, which increased to 20 percent in 1995, and reached nearly 30 percent in 201in 1995, and reached nearly 30 percent in 201in 2013.

Looking at brain activity, fNIRS revealed that boys showed increased activation with proficiency in the front of the brain when they heard a correct sentence, while girls showed more at the back.

In the test for which the shorter sentence was used, incarceration rates actually declined from the starting point of 1 % for about the first 5 years and then increased only very slightly, to 0.725 %, for the 50 - year duration.

In one sentence: A strikingly large increase in the number of atmospheric river days awaits the U.S. west coast if climate warming remains relatively unchecked, according to researchers from Pacific Northwest National LaboratorIn one sentence: A strikingly large increase in the number of atmospheric river days awaits the U.S. west coast if climate warming remains relatively unchecked, according to researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratorin the number of atmospheric river days awaits the U.S. west coast if climate warming remains relatively unchecked, according to researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

In one sentence: Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and colleagues found that if followed by measures of equal or greater ambition, individual country pledges to reduce their emissions called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions have the potential to reduce the probability of the highest levels of warming and increase the probability of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

The researchers calculated that for every one percent increase in the number of positive sentences the nuns» mortality risk decreased by 1.4 percent.

What MOST people think of now when it comes to GPP is what we might call non-specific in - season training, and it's typically included in sentences along with the phrases «increased work capacity», «general conditioning», and the like.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

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Her desire to transform hypothetical, ideological speculation into serious science is captured in sentences like this: «From a purely mathematical perspective, vouchers have a greater potential for increasing segregation in public schools than for increasing integration.»

The following week, Ms. Garcia spoke to her staff about her expectation regarding sentence frames and increasing the amount of time that students speak in class.

Alphabet games, vocabulary building, increase skill in word blending, sentence construction, contractions, prefixes, and homophones.

Students demonstrate increased language development as they communicate in simple sentences, sound out stories phonetically, and understand easy picture books.

Students will explore Tier 2 and Tier 3 words in building, editing, and revising sentences of increasing complexity.

One way in which a child's language changes after arrival at school is the «continuing development and increasing precision in the use of the sound system, the vocabulary, the sentence patterns, and the richness in the way he puts his meanings into words» (Clay, 1991, p. 73).

One way in which a child's language changes after arrival at school is the «continuing development and increasing precision in the use of the sound system, the vocabulary, the sentence patterns, and the richness in the way he puts his meanings into words.»

I called the customer service number held for about twenty mintues then spoke with a gentleman that told me since I did not accept the 7.99 increase — I stopped him in mid sentence since I had spoken to someone at Chase months before on this and told him no I am not questioning the increased payment amount I am curious as to why my minimum payment due is back down to 2 % of the balance — he then stated to me that I was put in the wrong catagory??