Barkan writes that if defendants plead not guilty, " they must decide whether their primary goal will be to win an acquittal and avoid imprisonment or a fine, or to use the proceedings as a forum to inform the jury and the public of the political circumstances surrounding the case and their reasons for breaking the law via civil disobedience.

It is unclear whether the penalty was death or a fine.

If allowed to view the ultrasound or x-ray monitor, they may be able to see their stones change from a distinct bright point ( or dark spot depending on whether the fluoro unit is set up in native or bones white ) to a fuzzy cloud as the stone is disintegrated into a fine powder.

Some U. S. states and provinces of Canada such as Alberta operate " owner liability " where it is the registered owner of the vehicle who must pay all such fines regardless of whether he was driving at the time of the offense, although they do release the owner from liability if he signs a form identifying the actual driver and that individual pays the fine.

The royal clerks and many other clergy paid the fines, and in March, the southern clergy met again, and after a long debate, Winchelsey instructed each clerk to decide for himself whether or not to pay the fine.

Remember, therefore, all the fine things that your jurists and statesmen have said and written about the great palladium of British liberty and so forth: remember how the learned Sir William Blackstone hath delivered himself on this point ;— how that ' the founders of the English laws have with excellent forecast contrived that the truth of every accusation, whether preferred in the shape of indictment, information, or appeal, should be confirmed by the unanimous suffrage of twelve of his ( the accused person's ) equals and neighbours, indifferently chosen, and superior to all suspicion.

) and the offence is category 4 ( the production of 9 plants or less, assuming 40g or less per plant ) the starting point for sentencing is a ' band c fine ' ( 150 % of your weekly income, after tax ), decreasing to ' discharge ' or increasing to ' low level community order ' ( community service, curfew, attendance centre or similar for a small amount of time ) depending on other mitigating or aggravating factors such as theft of electricity, the presence of children or whether the offender has grown the plants for use in the treatment of a valid medical condition.

Critic Vincent Canby wrote, " Ms. Tomei gives every indication of being a fine comedian, whether towering over Mr. Pesci and trying to look small, or arguing about a leaky faucet in terms that demonstrate her knowledge of plumbing.

For example, the Australian Football League has an official melee rule which is used to fine players involved in large on-field brawls, regardless of whether or not they throw punches.

Great care was therefore taken to produce a fine piece in whatever the craft was, whether confectionery, painting, goldsmithing, knifemaking, or many other trades.

On President Obama, Reverend Graham said that he is " a fine man " but could not know whether the President was a Christian in his heart.

The Adams were the authors of numerous fine designs, none finer than their mantles and their looking-glass frames, which latter, exquisitely carved in airy grace and delicacy of broken garlands of fine blossoms falling about the great beveled sheet of glass, whether ebony or white or gilt, are of unrivaled beauty.

Although Wright would most likely win a legal case against the fine, it is not known whether he considered challenging it or not.

Longevity is always an important consideration in fine art, whether in reproductions ( such as serigraphs or lithographs ) or in an original work.

“ Dead people are not concerned whether their bodies are buried in coffins, cremated, dumped in water or in a ditch ; nor whether the body is dressed in fine clothes.

The records do not show whether this fine enthusiasm was fundamentally excited by a love of pure science or by a love of the President's daughter.

Alternatively, the entire sequence may not be present depending on whether the exposed section was at the edge of the turbidity current lobe ( where it may be present as a thin deposit ), or upslope from the deposition centre and manifested as a scour channel filled with fine sands grading up into a pelagic ooze.

There is some dispute about whether " underground " and " avant-garde " truly mean the same thing and if challenging non-traditional cinema and fine arts cinema are actually fundamentally related.

The Yukon Quest's rules allow race officials latitude on whether to assess a time penalty or monetary fine on mushers who violate one or more regulations.

' Every person having a husband or wife living, who marries another, whether married or single, in a Territory, or other place over which the United States have exclusive jurisdiction, is guilty of bigamy, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $ 500, and by imprisonment for a term of not more than five years.

ASCII art ( letter diagrams ) cannot show this fine a detail, but a quarterback in position to take a handed snap is allowed by rule to stand farther forward, in a place which would otherwise cause illegal confusion as to whether the player was in the backfield or the line.

He has stated that his goal is to “ blur the lines between fine art and commercial art .” According to Baseman, pervasive art can take any medium, and need not be “ limited to one world, whether is the gallery world, editorial world, or art toy world .”

Two men, together like us, we could do somethin fine out there, maybe find a place where no one's ever been.

Or `` How do we enrich our already fine marriage ''??

In our own practice, to have the last `` intonaco '' plaster coat thick enough to match, and at the same time to avoid fine cracks in drying, we found that it had to be put on in two layers, letting the first set awhile before applying the second.

`` Neutral Tones '' we immediately recognize as a fine poem in Hardy's most characteristic style: the plain but not quite colloquial language, the hard, particular, colorless images, the slightly odd stanza-form, the dramatic handling of the occasion, the refusal to resolve the issue -- all these we have seen in Hardy's best poems.

The Louisiana city is known, of course, for its fine food, good music and its colorful hospitality `` and, when guests arrive at Philmont that night '', says Mrs. Grinsfelder, `` that is exactly what we expect to offer them.

With three fine Russian films in recent months on World War 2, -- `` The House I Live In '', `` The Cranes Are Flying '' and `` Ballad Of A Soldier '' -- we had every right to expect a real Soviet block-buster in `` The Day The War Ended ''.

The main recent sense of the word “ art ” is roughly as an abbreviation for creative art or “ fine art .” Here we mean that skill is being used to express the artist ’ s creativity, or to engage the audience ’ s aesthetic sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration of the “ finer ” things.

From a letter written by Thomas Purcell, and still extant, we learn that this anthem was composed for the exceptionally fine voice of the Rev.

Even when we make all due allowance for the prejudices of critics whose only possible enthusiasm went out to ' the pointed and fine propriety of Poe ,' we can hardly believe that the exquisite art which is among the most valued on our possessions could encounter so much garrulous abuse without the criminal intervention of personal malignancy.

" All during the flight, Rube kept saying, " No — leave us alone ; we ’ re doing fine.

The pure number we call the fine structure constant and denote by α is a combination of the electron charge, e, the speed of light, c, and Planck's constant, h. At first we might be tempted to think that a world in which the speed of light was slower would be a different world.

This evolution operator only has meaning as a series, and what we get here is a perturbation series with the fine structure constant as the development parameter.

" Despite " unlike coincidence and occasional melodrama " in the plotting, Williamson concluded that " the novel is a fine juvenile reflects hopes and fears we all have known.

* The anthropic fine tuning of the universe: He quotes with approval Freeman Dyson, who said " the more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming " and suggests there is a wide consensus amongst physicists that either there are a very large number of other universes in the Multiverse or that " there is just one universe which is the way it is in its anthropic fruitfulness because it is the expression of the purposive design of a Creator, who has endowed it with the finely tuned potentialty for life.

On the other hand, according to the conservative theory, we should obtain one original DNA strand and a completely new one i. e. two fine lines in the test tube placed separately one from the other.

It ’ s always good to know that we have some fine people out there listening to the most powerful commercial voice in the world ... From alongside the beautiful Rio Grande, this is XERF, Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico.

A rebuttal paper by John Leslie points out a difference between the observation of double sixes and the observation of fine tuning, namely that the former is not necessary ( the roll could have come out differently ) while the latter is necessary ( our universe must support life, which means ex hypothesi that we must see fine tuning ).

The city of Wakefield made its first appropriation of $ 1, 000 to lay the groundwork of the fine community facility we enjoy today.

" The interesting part is, is that we talked to these two gentlemen a couple of weeks ago, a pre-interview, apparently that went all just fine and it made great sense, and what I read about them this afternoon, but somehow it got a little lost in translation tonight.

Following this a large flouring mill was erected, and large brick blocks have taken the place of round log cabin, and instead of the plank road we find the Air Line Division of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, and instead of the hamlet in the woods, we find a beautiful village of fifteen hundred inhabitants, adorned with churches, schools, and fine residences.