Sentences with phrase «year sentence there»

The world knows it as the place of imprisonment of Mandela, who spent 18 of his 27 year sentence there.

Ex-state Assemblyman Eric Stevenson is serving his three - year sentence there, while fallen City Councilman Larry Seabrook is there until 2017.

Not exact matches

«There are Baha'is rotting in jail on a 20 - year sentence on trumped up charges simply because they have a certain set of faith beliefs that run against the theocracy in Iran.»

IF the torture law was seen to work, and there was a dramatic decrease in violent crimes because bad people realized that they were okay with a death sentence, but 25 years of electric niple clamps was more than they were willing to take on, then the government could make the case that they enacted the will of the people by reducing crime.

Sentencing the 48 year old, Mr Recorder Ray Singh said: «There can be no bigger breach of trust one can imagine than these particular circumstances.»

Moreover, the analytic - synthetic distinction has been effectively challenged by Quine In recent years.1 Stripped of the possibility of assigning a given sentence in either category as the result of Quine's critique, there remains little basis for the positivists» criticisms.

While there, Abedini was pulled off a bus, charged with undermining national security, and sentenced to eight years in prison.

Let me begin by putting it this way — and here I quote a favorite sentence from Dr. William DuBose, a great American theologian forgotten by most Americans, for many years a professor at the University of the South — «There is no limit to that which God will do for us, but He will never do it in spite of us, but always through us.»

Recently the Philippines has legislated a law declaring that those who bring nuclear weapons into the territory of the Philippines will be imprisoned for a sentence of at least six years and up to a maximum of thirty, and that all airplanes or ships carrying nuclear bombs will be arrested.4 There have been indications that the United States has explored plans to relocate the United States military from the Philippines to Taiwan.

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

But I am also aware that every year, hundreds of thousands of women and babies experience no such reprieve from the preventable death sentence imposed when labour goes wrong and there is not even the most basic health care available to ease their suffering and save their lives.

Many years later, I then got to know my Argentine housemate, Juan, on exchange in Mannheim, Germany, where we would chat in our shared kitchen — a sprinkling of sentences here and there as I finished dinner and as he started his — where we'd eventually fall in love and after two years of a long - distance relationship, I later moved to Buenos Aires to live in the same country and continent as him.

Now there's a sentence that you never would have imagined seeing just two years ago.

There are some issues which made need to be sorted before any transfer becomes a reality which is the conviction in France for assault on a Police Officer last year, of which the player received a two - month suspended prison sentence.

There were warnings of far - right violence in the UK today, after Anders Breivik was sentenced to a minimum of 21 years for killing 77 people in Norway.

He said jail is different than prison — people are there for shorter terms, either while awaiting trial or on year sentences.

The Government has indicated that it is very reluctantly intending to implement the ECHR ruling granting votes for prisoners sentenced to four years or less (although there has been speculation that it could be restricted further).

Ethics reform is being discussed, but in a year where both former leaders of the legislature have been sentenced to prison, and there's on going state and federal investigations of the governor's economic development programs, it's unclear what will ultimately be agreed upon.

There is no considerable benefit in giving a community sentence to a 16 - year - old who has threatened another citizen with a knife.

In 2015 the Government pitched an ambitious # 25m project to build a 1,500 bed prison in Jamaica, with the aim of sending more than 300 Jamaican inmates with sentences of more than four years there.

«I hope the sentence I impose upon you will make other politicians think twice until their better angels take over — or, if there are no better angels, perhaps the fear of living out his golden years in an orange jumpsuit,» said Caproni, who also ordered Silver to forfeit $ 5.3 million and pay a $ 1.75 million fine.

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.

There were the unprecedented seventeen by - elections held after Labour MPs convicted of erroneously charging paper clips to their expenses were each sentenced to 13 years imprisonment.

One hundred and fifty years ago in Scientific American, the March 1860 issue, we wrote»... gas for interior illumination, it is supposed is a powerful disinfectant, and hence there is no contagion within the circle of its influence» — actually we were then quoting, and then we wrote: «We copy the above sentence for the purpose of disputing the inference that gas will protect people from the smallpox.

«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?

Now there's a sentence I never expected to come out of my mouth in a million years.

Sentenced to three years in jail upon getting into a scuffle with a couple of fuzz trying to stop him from busking in the park, Otis, for starters, would be a far more resonant character if he were portrayed by a black actor (it doesn't count that the icky Matthews suffers from delusions of soul), since there's nothing to justify his martyr complex.

There's no way Amazon Studios could have predicted they would release Nash Edgerton's Gringo on the same day hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fra...

As it stands, there's that worth - the - admission first half, wherein ex-CIA agent Snow (Pearce) is interrogated about the death of a colleague and a briefcase that goes missing before being sentenced to thirty years in suspended animation (Minority Report) on an orbiting prison station.

There are initial teaching slides and questions focusing on identifying the most formal sentence similar to those found in the year 6 spag test.

Her entire argument can essentially be summed up in one sentence: «Taxpayers across the U.S. will soon be spending $ 1 billion a year to help families pay private school tuition — and there's little evidence that the investment yields academic gains.»

If you've not yet read our review of the new BMW M2, stop reading this sentence and scroll down the page — it's one of this year's big - hitters, and on first impressions it appears there's much to like.

I actually used to have a page in my notebook for writing them down, but I quit making it when it started to get too weird to read: when besides the normal things like the toilet backed up again, or they called to say they were turning off the electricity, there were things like she lost the ticket stub from some hippie concert twenty years ago where she met the guy she should have married but never saw again, or the color of the dryer lint made her remember a sweater she once had when she was an exchange student in Belgium, back when she thought she would become an archaeologist when she grew up, but now she was only someone who worked in a deli and sometimes did catering and couldn't even say one sentence in Flemish anymore.

There are two moments from On Writing, Stephen King's memoir and craft book, that I still think about more than 15 years after reading it: the shortest sentence in the world, «Plums defy!»

This is a tough one for me as there were a couple of posts I thought would get more traction — but the +1 goes to «Recreating the wheel — very good sentences from the Book, Little Boy Blue» — which I think highlights just how long the ideas of running shelters / rescues like businesses and increasing adoptions through customer service have existed — and why, still 30 years later, too many shelters still aren't learning from these models.

However, lest the previous sentence is taken out of context, we should point out that there is clear evidence that total cloud cover has changed over the past 150 years (Palle and Butler, 2001, 2002).

, «for 30 years, there has been an unsuccessful search ``, «does not logically imply», «the sale of indulgences»...... those lines were all great, but the summation sentence, IMO was the most pointed......» Wasting resources on symbolically fighting ever - present climate change is no substitute for prudence.»

And there you have it: the lunacy of the Paris climate conference in one sentence: $ 1.5 trillion every year till the end of the century to effect the equivalent of walking to your bedroom.

Accused went to cottage of JC with whom she previously cohabited — Accused found JC with victim, another lady, in sauna — Angry words were exchanged between accused and JC — Victim testified that accused pushed her following verbal exchange, as a result victim lost balance and ended up against stove, thereby sustaining serious burns to body — Trial judge accepted victim's evidence that there was some kind of pushing — Accused convicted on one count of assault causing bodily harm, and sentenced to two - year term of probation and $ 1,000.00 fine, and accused was also ordered to provide DNA sample pursuant to s. 487.04 of Criminal Code — Accused appealed — Appeal against conviction dismissed — Although trial judge did not address analytical steps in order, he properly analyzed evidence and concluded that injuries sustained by victim were not accidental and could not have occurred in any other fashion than as stated by victim — Having provided reasons for accepting victim's evidence, trial judge was entitled to reject accused's evidence — Trial judge's reasoning, though skeletal, permitted accused and appellate court to determine how and why finding resulted.

Accused went to cottage of JC with whom she previously cohabited — Accused found JC with victim, another lady, in sauna — Angry words were exchanged between accused and JC — Victim testified that accused pushed her following verbal exchange, as a result victim lost balance and ended up against stove, thereby sustaining serious burns to body — Trial judge accepted victim's evidence that there was some kind of pushing — Accused convicted on one count of assault causing bodily harm, and sentenced to two - year term of probation and $ 1,000.00 fine, accused was also ordered to provide DNA sample pursuant to s. 487.04 of Criminal Code — Accused appealed — Appeal against sentence was allowed — Trial judge erred in concluding that discharge was not appropriate in circumstances, especially given conclusion that accused did not deliberately attempt to injure victim — Trial judge found that there was no need for either specific deterrence or general deterrence; prime concern was need for denunciation of her conduct — Section 730 of Criminal Code permits discharge in cases of this nature, provided that it was in best interest of accused and not contrary to public interest — Accused was responsible individual with no record whatsoever, she held position as counsellor and social worker for 25 years — Trial judge did not find that conviction would definitely affect her employment, but possibility existed, and such conviction would necessarily result in criminal record — There was no likelihood of re-offending — Conditional discharge would not be contrary to public intethere was some kind of pushing — Accused convicted on one count of assault causing bodily harm, and sentenced to two - year term of probation and $ 1,000.00 fine, accused was also ordered to provide DNA sample pursuant to s. 487.04 of Criminal Code — Accused appealed — Appeal against sentence was allowed — Trial judge erred in concluding that discharge was not appropriate in circumstances, especially given conclusion that accused did not deliberately attempt to injure victim — Trial judge found that there was no need for either specific deterrence or general deterrence; prime concern was need for denunciation of her conduct — Section 730 of Criminal Code permits discharge in cases of this nature, provided that it was in best interest of accused and not contrary to public interest — Accused was responsible individual with no record whatsoever, she held position as counsellor and social worker for 25 years — Trial judge did not find that conviction would definitely affect her employment, but possibility existed, and such conviction would necessarily result in criminal record — There was no likelihood of re-offending — Conditional discharge would not be contrary to public intethere was no need for either specific deterrence or general deterrence; prime concern was need for denunciation of her conduct — Section 730 of Criminal Code permits discharge in cases of this nature, provided that it was in best interest of accused and not contrary to public interest — Accused was responsible individual with no record whatsoever, she held position as counsellor and social worker for 25 years — Trial judge did not find that conviction would definitely affect her employment, but possibility existed, and such conviction would necessarily result in criminal record — There was no likelihood of re-offending — Conditional discharge would not be contrary to public inteThere was no likelihood of re-offending — Conditional discharge would not be contrary to public interest.

Accused went to cottage of JC with whom she previously cohabited — Accused found JC with victim, another lady, in sauna — Angry words were exchanged between accused and JC — Victim testified that accused pushed her following verbal exchange, as a result victim lost balance and ended up against stove, thereby sustaining serious burns to body — Trial judge accepted victim's evidence that there was some kind of pushing — Accused convicted on one count of assault causing bodily harm, and sentenced to two - year term of probation and $ 1,000.00 fine, accused was also ordered to provide DNA sample pursuant to s. 487.04 of Criminal Code — Accused appealed against order to provide DNA sample — Appeal allowed — Order was issued to destroy DNA sample that was taken — Trial judge erred in failing to exercise discretion not to order DNA sample — Accused was first time offender, in circumstances that resulted in serious injuries, but with no intention of causing those injuries — Accused had otherwise been exemplary citizen, and likelihood of re-offending was remote.

This article argues that it is time for the SCSL to establish an independent fact finding commission, with a narrowly framed and time limited mandate, to establish the truth, or falsity, of the allegation that Alternate Judge Sow made during the delivery of the Taylor Trial judgment that there were no (serious) deliberations by the three judges who convicted the accused and sentenced him to 50 years imprisonment.

The Court of Appeal dismissed the conviction appeal and dismissed the sentence appeal by concluding that there was no basis to interfere with the sentence of two years less a day.

M had four main grounds for appeal; (i) the sentence did not bear a proper relationship to the maximum sentence of two years available for civil contempt; (ii) it did not take into account there was no violence; (iii) it did not take into account the context of the breaches and; (iv) a short custodial sentence would have marked the court's disapproval appropriately.

After all, if ever there was a good use for your ill - gotten gains, hiring a Hollywood - caliber director to produce a video that shaves years off your prison sentence, is it!

In the past year there have been a number of important decisions on sentencing for violations of OHS legislation across Canada.

Sam Glover: There are so many people who... A good friend of mine is a doctor, and he works with HIV patients and — this is years ago now — but we were having a conversation about how one of his biggest challenges is not keeping people alive because HIV isn't a death sentence anymore, it's getting people to take their medicine.

As Judge Wayne Morris Creech (a family court judge in the circuit in which I practice) once explained to an opposing party before sentencing her to jail for criminal contempt after she denied my client his court - ordered Christmas visitation for the second consecutive year in which he was entitled to it, there are «jail people» and «not jail people.»

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.

The two originators of the scam were extradited to the US and sentenced there to six and eight years» imprisonment.