For example, the federal and state governments in the United States divide misdemeanors into several classes, with certain classes punishable by jail time and others carrying only a fine.

For instance, Virginia has four classes of misdemeanors, with Class 1 and Class 2 misdemeanors being punishable by twelve-month and six-month jail sentences, respectively, and Class 3 and Class 4 misdemeanors being non-jail offenses payable by fines.

For example, in Arizona and Montana a County Attorney represents the county and state within their county, prosecutes all felonies occurring within the county, and prosecutes misdemeanors occurring within unincorporated areas of the county.

For some crimes, this is the minimum penalty, as traditionally in English-speaking, common law countries, misdemeanors may not entail a sentence of more than a year ( hence, " eleven months and twenty-nine days ") whereas felonies are traditionally punished by incarceration of over one year, hence " a year and a day.

For petty misdemeanors like most traffic violations, suspected offenders may either plea nolo contendere and pay a set fine amount ( amende forfaitaire ) or contest the charge in court.

For a ' middle date ' see Bauckham who opts for a date between 80 – 90AD as most probable.

For example, Fred Hoyle suggested that potential for life on Earth was no more probable than a Boeing 747 being assembled by a hurricane from the scrapyard.

For space flight, the main advantage of fusion would be the very high specific impulse, the main disadvantage the ( probable ) large mass of the reactor.

For example, when a patient displays certain symptoms, there might be various possible causes, but one of these is preferred above others as being more probable.

:* For the often specific terminology concerning a probable heir apparent, see Crown Prince and links there.

For this reason, experts consider that it is probable that the construction of the defensive line was intended to prevent the reentry of Moors into Asturias through the mountain passes of Mesa and Pajares.

For example, the naive Bayes classifier will make the correct MAP decision rule classification so long as the correct class is more probable than any other class.

" He places Coming Up For Air alongside Orwell's 1946 essay Some Thoughts on the Common Toad where he had written that, " retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and-toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable ".

For instance, Fuhrman claims that the initial search warrant submitted by one of the detectives on the case, Phillip Vannatter, was too short and didn't include enough details of the probable cause and evidence on hand at the time.

For his Tabernacle of the Sacrament, Desiderio returned ( as he earlier had done for the Marsuppini Tomb ) to a prototype originated by his probable master, Bernardo Rossellino.

It is probable that 16VSB has been replaced by ANSI / SCTE 07 2006: Digital Transmission Standard For Cable Television, a cable standard that defines 64QAM and 256QAM transmission for digital cable.

For typical step polymerization, most probable values of the PDI are around 2 — Carothers ' equation limits PDI to values of 2 and below.

For, in the first place, if the story is to be believed at all upon the authority of Hyginus, it would seem to belong rather to the 5th or 6th century BC than the 3rd or 4th ; secondly, we have no reason for thinking that Agnodice was ever at Alexandria, or Herophilus at Athens ; and thirdly, it seems hardly probable that Hyginus would have called a so celebrated physician " a certain Hierophilus " ( Herophilus quidam.

For example, consider a probability distribution over 100-bit vectors, where the all-zeros vector occurs with probability ½, and all other vectors are equally probable, and so have a probability of each.

For Aristotle, who defined it in his Rhetoric, an enthymeme was a " rhetorical syllogism " which was based on probable opinions, thus distinguishing it from a scientific syllogism.

For limits of date 400-150 BC may be regarded as approximately probable ; the two most important inscriptions — those of Brindisi and Vaste may be assigned, provisionally, to the 3rd century BC.

For instances of probable embellishment, see Mathias Haydn and Haydn and Mozart ; for an apparent outright blunder, see Rebecca Schroeter.

For practical purposes companies will use proven plus probable estimate ( 2P ), and for long term planning they will be looking primarily at possible reserves.

For most of 1856, Miller suffered severe headaches and the most probable diagnosis is of psychotic depression.

For example, a guard does not have reasonable and probable cause if a shopper has not yet paid for merchandise they are carrying in the belief that the person intends to leave without making payment.

For aircraft certified to operate above, it " must be designed so that occupants will not be exposed to cabin pressure altitudes in excess of after any probable failure condition in the pressurization system.

For the time of the Hungarian royal tax registration in 1495, conclusions for a probable absolute or relative „ ethnic ” majority of the population living in the area were drawn from the given sources through analysing direct references of „ ethnic nature ”, in most cases by the linguistic analysis of taxpayers ’ names and that of geographical names.

For it is probable that it was the second, if one is not willing to admit that it was the first that saw the Revelation, which is ascribed by name to John.

For family dignity, in Tongataboo, descends not from the father, but the mother, owing, it is probable, to the frequency of divorce, and of illicit intercourse.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

For many nights afterward, the idea of her having been so close to me in that imagined bed would return and fill me with obscure and painful desires, would cause me to lie awake in shame, tossing with irresolution, longing to fall into a deep sleep.

For three years, since the liquor territorial conference, Torrio had, with his elastic patience, and because he knew that retaliation could cause only violent warfare and disaster to business, tolerated O'Banion's impudent double-crossing.

For Hume, every effect only follows its cause arbitrarily — they are entirely distinct from one another.

For the non-univocal agent is the universal cause of the whole species, as for instance the sun is the cause of the generation of all men ; whereas the univocal agent is not the universal efficient cause of the whole species ( otherwise it would be the cause of itself, since it is contained in the species ), but is a particular cause of this individual which it places under the species by way of participation.

For a century free trade was the one cause which could unite all Liberals.

For instance, great anger or sadness may cause someone to lose focus on the present moment.

For example, adding more S from the outside will cause an excess of products, and the system will try to counteract this by increasing the reverse reaction and pushing the equilibrium point backward ( though the equilibrium constant will stay the same ).

For instance, severe hypoglycemia ( low blood sugar ) or hypercapnia ( increased carbon dioxide levels in the blood ) initially cause mild agitation and confusion, but progress to obtundation, stupor and finally complete unconsciousness.

For example, varicella zoster virus causes chickenpox in the acute phase ; after recovery from chickenpox, the virus may remain dormant in nerve cells for many years, and later cause herpes zoster ( shingles ).

For example, until the bacterial cause of tuberculosis was discovered in 1882, experts variously ascribed the disease to heredity, a sedentary lifestyle, depressed mood, and overindulgence in sex, rich food, or alcohol — all the social ills of the time.

For many participants, the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity — in art and more broadly in society — that corresponded to the war.

For nearly half the disorders, symptoms must be sufficient to cause " clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning ", although DSM-IV-TR removed the distress criterion from tic disorders and several of the paraphilias.

For instance, if the expected sale price of John Doe's house in the example above was not $ 150, 000 in three years, but $ 130, 000 in three years or $ 150, 000 in five years, then on the above assumptions buying the house would actually cause John to lose money in present-value terms ( about $ 3, 000 in the first case, and about $ 8, 000 in the second ).

For example, eating one food too often will cause a person to lose taste for it.

For example, westerly flows between MJO-induced areas of low pressure may cause cyclonic circulations north and south of the equator.

For subject matter jurisdiction, the claims in the case must either: ( 1 ) raise a Federal Question ( i. e., a cause of action or defense arising under the Constitution, a Federal statute, or the law of admiralty ); or have diversity of parties ( i. e., all of the defendants are from a different state than the Plaintiff ), and have an amount in controversy that exceeds a monetary threshold ( which changes from time to time, but is $ 75, 000 as of 2011 ).

For masses above, degenerate pressure will cause the planet to shrink.

For example 23: 1: " Successful indeed are the believers "; Sura 9: 14 " Fight them and God will punish them at your hands ... God will make you victorious over them "; 22: 40: " God will certainly aid those who aid His ( cause ): for verily God is Full of Strength, Exalted in Might.

For the Saxons, this value is the final admittance of the hopelessness of the Saxon cause.

For example, a homeowner's insurance policy will normally include liability coverage which protects the insured in the event of a claim brought by someone who slips and falls on the property ; automobile insurance also includes an aspect of liability insurance that indemnifies against the harm that a crashing car can cause to others ' lives, health, or property.