Sentences with phrase «sentence level of»

It addresses the word - for - word, clause, and sentence by sentence level of the narrative through recorded track changes.

«Even at the sentence level of language, there is a potential loss of information over a noisy channel,» says Edward Gibson, a professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) and Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.

Not exact matches

In 2014, new death sentences reached their lowest level in the modern era of the death penalty, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

On the 147th page of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, at the start of the «In Conclusion» section, the following sentence appears: «There is probably nothing in this book which you did not already know at some level of your experience.»

The U.S. federal sentencing process is a point - based system, where the nature of the offences, mitigating factors and other elements are plugged into a sort of mathematical equation to arrive at a numerical «offence level» score.

Still, without the personal level of knowledge that God exists, mentioned in my first sentence, no intellectual explanation or argument would hold much weight with me at all.

Islam today still beheads people for apostacy — if not on the national level then at the village / local level (saudi arabia, Iran), still burn people to death for witchcraft (indonesia and saudi arabia), Draw the prophet and earn yourself a death sentence from the Clergy, Write a book critical of islam and get the same deal, write a magazine article expessing concern about the rise of islam in your country and have your throat slit on a public street in YOUR own country...

We can find, therefore, very general similarities between the use and interpretation of sentences at the linguistic level and primitive natural signs as characterized in Whitehead's first version of symbolic reference.

For this tradition a linguistic sentence is regarded as a sign of a relatively high level of complexity sharing certain common features with more primitive signs interpreted by lower forms of life.

The first part of this sentence is the Barthian key to postliberal theology; the second part underscores the determination to avoid the charge often leveled at postliberals — of wanting to take up residence in a ghetto of «intratextuality» and rely on «revelational positivism.»

These are the kinds of full sentences that are constantly being unleashed on children, at a sound level that assures everyone on the bus is privy to them.

So prison populations soared, and mandatory sentences forced often reluctant judges to imprison first - time offenders, many of them lower - level «mules» who were merely carrying the drugs for the dealers, who were seldom touched.

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

The fact I even have to write that last sentence and reassure you I'm not a violent person reveals the level of stigma that exists around mental health.

In order to understand language we must perform a series of quantum jumps, so to speak, from one level of the speech hierarchy to the next higher one: phonemes are meaningless and can only be interpreted on the level of morphemes, words must be referred to context, sentences to a larger frame of reference.

Mr Thomas, added: «The national security charges levelled against these men were spurious, and their sentences are excessive, amounting to a criminalisation of Christian practice.»

I'll correct my last sentence for clarity, in light of the level of this discussion.

Despite their brevity, these sentences represent a new level of communication between your child and others.

He faces a minimum 15 - year sentence in a case that has prompted a fierce debate in a country beset by high levels of violent crime.

12:17 - The context of the Taylor case was that during sentencing of Goodman and Mulcaire, five more charges were levelled against the latter - Taylor was one of them.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

«Many of us believe there should be some level of accountability which in some cases includes prison sentences.»

Clinton said other necessary reforms include proper treatment for the mentally ill and drug addicted who make up an increasingly larger percentage of the prison population, sentencing reform so people with low level offenses do not face long prison terms, and tackling income inequality, which is often at the root of the problem for many people caught in the criminal justice system.

The issue remains a vexed one, with the judiciary's sentencing of offenders and government initiatives to crack down on child abuse often clashing with social perceptions of the culpability of these offenders and the appropriate level of punishment.

A new report on community sentencing indicates that the system is failing to protect the public and leads to high levels of re-offence.

The number of people executed in the United States this year dropped to the lowest level since 1991, as states impose fewer death sentences and defendants in capital cases get access to better legal help.

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg added: «Tagging has a very important role to play in ensuring that low level offenders and those at the end of their sentence are kept under adequate surveillance.

Equally dramatic was action Paterson took in overhauling the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws that for 35 years had deprived judges of sentencing discretion and doomed tens of thousands of low - level drug offenders to long prison sentences.

Kennedy's concern is that Level 1 sex offenders could drive for the companies seven years after a conviction or the end of a prison sentence under existing state law.

In March, a top - level provincial court upheld the death sentences of two migrant workers from Myanmar who were found guilty of murdering two British tourists on the southern island of Koh Tao in 2014.

The officials who received sentences that mirrored the government's recommendations — former assemblyman Anthony Seminerio, and former state senators Carl Krueger and Efrain Gonzalez, Jr. — were convicted of «conduct... less serious than here because they did not approach the level of power that Dean Skelos had as Majority Leader,» prosecutors wrote.

It's also worth noting that legendary levels of dubious activity cross partisan lines there: After the Republican Party lost the majority in the state Senate in 2008, Democrats spent the first few months of their abbreviated stint in power basking in new information about how Republicans spent the legislature's money on items like a special van for the man who was then their majority leader, Joe Bruno, who went on to be sentenced to two years in prison on federal corruption charges.

Nick Clegg has accused the home secretary, Theresa May, of attempting to delete sentences from a Whitehall report after it concluded that there was no link between tough laws and the levels of illegal drug use.

That would include the elimination of short jail sentences, diversion programs to keep low - level misdemeanor cases out of criminal court, and swapping out cash bail for increased pre-trial supervision, according to the report.

February's announcement explicitly mentioned the village in the same sentence as Flint, Michigan, where government malfeasance allowed thousands of people to drink water with high levels of lead.

These programs calculate a score or grade level foryour writing based on numerous characteristics, including sentence length, complexity of word choice, and so on.

The next sentence appears to offer a rationale for a higher level of support: «The Committee believes that strategic investments in the physical science areas are vitally important for the United States to remain the global leader in innovation, productivity, economic growth, and good - paying jobs.»

A new analysis is adding a level of much - needed detail, and it concludes that more than twice as many inmates were wrongly convicted and sentenced to death than have been exonerated and freed.

This structure occurs on the level of basic sounds, through words, and on to sentences — and then there are the cultural variations on all these patterns.

He also hypothesized that readers» likelihood of being offended by taboo words would mediate their attention level, affecting how rapidly they read each sentence, their ability to recall a probe word preceding the taboo word in every sentence, or both.

The high level features are linguistic: for example, a speaker's choice of words (lexicon), sentence structure (syntax), the use of filler words such as «um» or «like,» and speech difficulties such as stuttering.

«If we reviewed prison sentences with the same level of care that we devote to death sentences,» says University of Michigan law professor Samuel R. Gross, «there would have been over 28,500 non-death-row exonerations in the past 15 years...» What is the self - justification for reducing this form of dissonance?

• In a bungled attempt at clarification of a letter by Valerie Yule about using concert technology to help older people discriminate dialogue (19 March, p 33), we added a sentence saying that compensating for the difficulty of picking out voices from low - frequency background noise «often requires that the radio or television be turned up to a level unpleasant for younger ears».

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.

There very last sentence is «Future research to combine measuring levels of arsenic with amounts of rice consumption is warranted to better evaluate the effect of arsenic ingested from food on cancer risk.»

Acne Studios leather jacket, Silence + Noise t - shirt dress, Zara mules, Céline sunglasses Hate to make this post a lot shorter than I normally would but I'm currently running on low levels of energy (surprise, surprise, always before I'm about to travel) and I'm not sure if these sentences I'm forming are actually coherent.

In the dating word, assuming that women all like the same things is as good as a death sentence; Women of every social and economic level like all kinds of things in a man and they're all looking for something different.

Progress in Freedom Wars is defined not only by your sentence (which is always displayed above your character's head) but also the level of your equipment, too.

That's «Free Fire,» and reading that sentence with varying levels of inflection gives the same sensation as seeing this loathsome, dreadfully repetitive caper - gone - awry tale.

Worst of all is any scene where Paul has to say «I love you,» a sentence that Willis delivers with approximately the level of conviction as an Al Qaeda hostage reciting a false confession.