Concerning the sentence, Foss wrote, `` If it be possible that mercy shall override vengeance and that John Brown's sentence shall be commuted to imprisonment, it would be well -- well for the country and for Virginia ''.

If a judge or magistrate were to refuse to hear such a plea, or obviously fail to properly consider it, then the sentence would, without doubt, be overturned on appeal.

This is because they were only carrying out the sentence of death that he would have faced had he not been acquitted on a technicality.

However, such a sentence would most likely be recast as the team members take their seats.

Had he pled guilty to first-degree murder, Alford would have had the possibility of a life sentence, but avoided the death penalty.

The Court went on to note that even if the defendant could have shown that he would not have entered a guilty plea " but for " the rationale of receiving a lesser sentence, the plea itself would not have been ruled invalid.

In cases where a metonymic shift would be otherwise revealed nearby, the whole sentence may be recast to avoid the metonymy.

In this sentence, Freund would seem to be the indirect object, but, because it follows an ( direction ), the accusative is required, not the dative.

The fact that Paul enjoins Philemon to prepare a room for Paul's later visit – even though Paul is currently in prison without a stated commutation of sentence – could be read as a subtle threat: Paul would come to ensure his wish for Onesimus's freedom was in fact carried out by Philemon.

A miracle occurred and the food she was carrying ( which would have earned her a death sentence ), turned into a garland of roses.

He would have to consent to a gag order that would prevent him from making any public statements on the matter for the duration of his 20-year sentence, and he would have to drop any claims that he had been mistreated or tortured by U. S. military personnel in Afghanistan and aboard two military ships during December 2001 and January 2002.

" When an elderly defendant told him that he would not be able to live to complete a five-year sentence, Landis scowled at him and asked, " Well, you can try, can't you?

Whilst Schwitters still created work in an expressionist style into 1919 ( and would continue to paint realist pictures up to his death in 1948 ), the first abstract collages, influenced in particular by recent works by Hans Arp, would appear in late 1918, which Schwitters dubbed Merz after a fragment of found text from the sentence Commerz Und Privatbank in his picture Das Merzbild, Winter 1918 – 19.

Fidler warned that according to California law, the Board of Prison Terms could later change the sentence to a lesser term ; at the time, Olson's lawyers asserted that due to discrepancies between 1970s laws and current California laws, their client would most likely serve only five years, which could turn into two years for good behavior.

If " this sentence is false " is true, then the sentence is false, which would in turn mean that it is actually true, but this would mean that it is false, and so on ad infinitum.

Similarly, if " this sentence is false " is false, then the sentence is true, which would in turn mean that it is actually false, but this would mean that it is true, and so on ad infinitum.

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

Concerning the sentence the editor asked, `` What else can Virginia do than to hang the men who have defied her laws, organized treason, and butchered her citizens ''.

Do you have anything to say as to why the sentence of this Court should not now be passed upon you ?".

They can also have difficulty trying to find the right words to make a sentence.

The defendant had to have pleaded not guilty, and the jury did not instead recommend a life sentence.

In the words of Charles Plummer, one of the best-known editors of the Historia Ecclesiastica, Bede's Latin is " clear and limpid ... it is very seldom that we have to pause to think of the meaning of a sentence ... Alcuin rightly praises Bede for his unpretending style.

A good example of such a metonymic shift in the singular-to-plural direction ( which, generally speaking, only occurs in British English ) is the following sentence: " The team have finished the project.

Even when such a sentence might have been imposed, the Cities of Refuge and other sanctuaries, were at hand for those unintentionally guilty of capital offences.

It appears to have arisen over theological contentions concerning the meaning, figurative or literal, of a sentence from the Gospel of John: " the Word was made Flesh ".

All felonies remain considered a serious crime, but concerns of proportionality ( i. e., that the punishment fit the crime ) have in modern times prompted legislatures to require or permit the imposition of less serious punishments, ranging from lesser terms of imprisonment to the substitution of a jail sentence or even the suspension of all incarceration contingent upon a defendant's successful completion of probation.

Graham Priest and other logicians, including J. C. Beall, and Bradley Armour-Garb have proposed that the liar sentence should be considered to be both true and false, a point of view known as dialetheism.

For instance, the sentence does not have the same truth conditions as, so they are different sentences distinguished only by the parentheses.

They have no phonetic value-and are never used as word signs in writing a sentence.

Even though this sentence may be somewhat ambiguous to some laypersons, who can, and who have actually interpreted it as meaning that they will not get a lawyer until they confess and are arraigned in court, the U. S. Supreme Court has approved of it as an accurate description of the procedure in those states.

Word formation is a process, as we have said, where you combine two complete words, whereas with inflection you can combine a suffix with some verb to change its form to subject of the sentence.

Many languages have both an active and a passive voice ; this allows for greater flexibility in sentence construction, as either the semantic agent or patient may take the syntactic role of subject.

In most United States jurisdictions a defendant is allowed the opportunity to allocute — that is, explain himself — before sentence is passed.

Lovecraft emphasised the point by stating in the opening sentence of the story that " The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

It was the most severe sentence up to then imposed under the Alien and Sedition Acts.

The most well-noted of these are object-relative clauses, object Wh-questions, and topicalized structures ( placing the topic at the beginning of the sentence ).< ref name =" Friedmann "> Friedmann, Naama, Aviah Gvion, and Rama Novogrodsky.

The tribunal suspended him for sixteen weeks, and although most people thought this was a fair ( or even lenient ) sentence, he took his case to the supreme court, gathering even more unwanted publicity for the club.

In fact, being sent to French Guiana as a relégué was a life sentence, and usually a short life sentence, as most of the relégués died very quickly from disease and malnutrition.

Graham Stanton evaluates the opening of the Gospel of Luke as " the most finely composed sentence in the whole of post-Classical Greek literature.

For this reason, Paul VI teaches in the first sentence of Humanae Vitae, that the transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.

It also lends itself to elaboration, because its tight syntax holds even the longest and most complex sentence together as a logical unit.

In most countries, a person convicted of murder is typically given a long prison sentence, possibly a life sentence where permitted, and in some countries, the death penalty may be imposed for such an act — though this practice is becoming less common.

: A finding of insanity may well result in indefinite confinement in a hospital, whereas a conviction for murder may well result in a determinate sentence of between ten and fifteen years ; faced with this choice, it may be that most defendants would prefer the certainty of the latter option.

In fact, perhaps surprisingly, for a typical sentence there may be thousands of potential parses ( most of which will seem completely nonsensical to a human ).

In most Canadian criminal proceedings, the Crown has the ability to recommend a lighter sentence than it would seek following a guilty verdict in exchange for a guilty plea.

Maybe the most famous reference is the one contained in the opening sentence of “ Don Quixote de La Mancha ”:

For example, the following sentence was claimed as " the most difficult of common English-language tongue-twisters " by William Poundstone

As cruel a sentence as this was, it proved most effective as it triggered such obedience of his subjects that from that point on there was no mention of any challenge of his position whatsoever.

His first action was to prepare a degree to repair the disastrous sentence by Supreme Court judge Corrado Carnevale, known as the “ sentence-killer ”, that allowed most of the remaining defendants of the Maxi Trial to walk free from prison.

In this respect, he was by far the most senior surviving Nazi official to escape a death sentence.

The most original part of their theory is the idea that what is expressed by a sentence, called a lekton, is something real.

This sentence was carried into execution by Doeg in the most cruel manner ( 1 Sam.