Sentences with phrase «possible opening sentence»

Named for the author of «It was a dark and stormy night,» the contest honors the worst possible opening sentence to an imaginary novel.

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For example, Philip H. Ashby, The Conflict of Religions (New York, 1955), the first work of the first scholar in this field at Princeton, is a discussion «concerning the possible contributions of the religions of the world to the amelioration of the problems of mankind» (p. 192; opening sentence of the concluding chapter); the author is concerned to show that man (sic) can meet the terrible problems that confront him today if he can replace the «conflict» among his various religions with a «combined witness» (p. viii).

With polling stations opening in less than 24 hours, the prime minister wanted the words «Hamas» and «Labour» to share as many sentences as possible.

The corruption conviction of his onetime right - hand man and political fixer Joseph Percoco, who is now facing a possible 50 - year prison sentence, opened Cuomo up in an election year to a barrage of relentless public attacks from Republicans and no rush from many Democrats to support the head of their party in New York State.

It's fairly effective, that is, until the moment when one of the characters says to another: «We are not so different, you and I.» That sentence is so bad, so on - the - nose, you can almost hear the actor opening a tiny drawer labeled «THIRD - RATE THESIS LINES» as quietly as possible before speaking.

Since 1982 the English Department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer - Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.

The Bulwer - Lytton Fiction Contest: For this contest, entrants must compose the opening sentence for the WORST novel possible.

93 Here, while the Charter violations bear the «necessary connection to the sentencing exercise» as contemplated in Nasogaluak and Glykis, to open the door to a sentence reduction as a possible Charter remedy, the nature and degree of the state misconduct demand a remedy that goes beyond an adjustment to the sentence - a remedy that appropriately responds to the damage that misconduct such as this does to the foundation of our system of justice.

Recommendation 12: The Open Justice initiative should be extended and updated so that it is possible to view sentences for individual offences at individual courts, broken down by demographic characteristics, including gender and ethnicity.

«We will... resolutely respond to such crimes by slapping maximum sentences possible on offenders,» the statement reportedly added, adding authorities would «leave all policy options open, including closure of a cryptocurrency exchange when deemed necessary.»