In sentencing a man convicted of a petty theft he said: "Look, I hardly know what to do with you, but you can take six months.
In sentencing a burglar recently, the judge referred to him as a "professional," to which the prisoner strongly protested from the dock.
The judge, sentencing the first four, gave them seven years' imprisonment.
A judge in sentencing a prisoner should give a sentence consistent with justice and mercy, regardless of public sentiment, considering his own judgment, and not the possible consequences of his act on his future.
The judge in sentencing him remarked that as this was the first time he had appeared before the court, he would be fined three hundred dollars, but that should he again appear, the penalty might be different.
They might convict him, and then Butler's Judge Payderson would have the privilege of sentencing him--giving him the maximum sentence.
In all his life before he had never witnessed a sentencing scene of any kind.
Some of my lawyer friends tell me that the judge assumed a very doubtful right in so sentencing the culprit; but no legal move was made to invalidate the judge's order, so the matter rested.
The tribunals seem to have been more tender-hearted than the Suprema which, in its instructions of 1662, reproved inquisitors who avoid sentencing to torture on account of weakness or of a broken arm.
If a starving man had gone into any one of the Astor houses and stolen even as much as a silver spoon, the Law would have come to the rescue of outraged property by sentencing him to prison.
But the sentencing of the criminal was merely the beginning of a weird life of horror.
Here, in the Epistle, the sixty-ninth Psalm is cited only to affirm with the authority of Scripture the mystery of God's action in sentencing the impenitent adversaries of His Christ to more blindness and more ruin.
In sentencing him to be stripped of his ecclesiastical habit and imprisoned for life, the judges seem to have exceeded their legal power.
Use on the other hand the instrument of civilization, without sentencing any one, and brigandage and robbery will disappear before its light.
Woe to the judge who makes a mistake in sentencing a 19 year old offender who was drunk when he sinned, but had premeditated his deed.
Now, how is it possible that so terrible an office as that of sentencing criminals retains its stability or vacillates, according to whether the first who denies the existence of a free will deprives this function of its foundation?
An excellent character for kindness and humanity was given to the prisoner by many persons, which the learned judge took into account in sentencing him, upon being pronounced "Guilty of Manslaughter" by the jury.
The learned Judge, in sentencing him to be transported for seven years, expressed his sincere regret that he had not the power to inflict upon him a more severe punishment.
In the second Punic war we find Marcellus sentencing the cohorts that had lost their standards to this infliction.
How Pantagruel excuseth Bridlegoose in the matter of sentencing actions at law by the chance of the dice.
How Pantagruel excuseth Bridlegoose in the matter of sentencing actions at law by the chance of the dice Chapter 3.
About 1245 we find the Florentine inquisitor, Ruggieri Calcagni, sentencing a Catharan named Diotaiuti, for relapse, with a fine of one hundred lire.
Toulouse which condemned the Manichæan heresy, but was forced to content itself with sentencing the heretics to expulsion from the Church.
In sentencing him to four years' hard labour, the Chief Justice said for a similar crime upon a white woman a black man would be liable to the death penalty.
From the beginning the rule was absolute that two must act conjointly in all important matters, such as sentencing to torture, ordering publication of evidence, or rendering final sentence, and this in both civil and criminal actions.
We have seen that, in the Clementines, the concurrence of both bishop and inquisitor was requisite in ordering severe detentive incarceration, in sentencing to torture and in the final sentence.
In the earlier period, the delays and expenses of special messengers and couriers rendered it necessary for the local tribunals to be virtually independent in the routine business of arresting, trying, sentencing and punishing offenders.
This is both a sentencingof him for and to evil, and is in itself a grievous curse.
No, but we will stand on God's side in sentencing of thee to that portion which the devils must be partakers of.
You ladies seem to feel that we discriminate in making arrests and in sentencing you," said the judge heavily.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sentencing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
