Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice turned herself in to serve a 15-month sentence for bankruptcy fraud.
She began her quest for equal rights shortly after her three-month sentence.
Short trials produce convictions and sentences, but the time is often run concurrently, not adding any time to the sentence.
He was nearing the end of his sentence, but the woman enlisted Joplin to marry them before he was released.
He remains serving a three-year sentence for embezzlement that he was convicted on in May.
Something in her heart or her throat prevented Hester from finishing the sentence.
Let me tell you that Dirk Colson would not have repeated that sentence for the world!
She told him her mother had read but the first sentence or two.
And he finished his sentence with a practical illustration of his frame of mind.
This sentence was as humiliating and mortifying as anything that could be put upon him.
c.1200, "doctrine, authoritative teaching; an authoritative pronouncement," from Old French sentence "judgment, decision; meaning; aphorism, maxim; statement of authority" (12c.) and directly from Latin sententia "thought, way of thinking, opinion; judgment, decision," also "a thought expressed; aphorism, saying," from sentientem, present participle of sentire "be of opinion, feel, perceive" (see sense (n.)). Loss of first -i- in Latin by dissimilation.
From early 14c. as "judgment rendered by God, or by one in authority; a verdict, decision in court;" from late 14c. as "understanding, wisdom; edifying subject matter." From late 14c. as "subject matter or content of a letter, book, speech, etc.," also in reference to a passage in a written work. Sense of "grammatically complete statement" is attested from mid-15c. "Meaning," then "meaning expressed in words." Related: Sentential.
"to pass judgment," c.1400, from sentence (n.). Related: Sentenced; sentencing.