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have sentenced

  • present perfect
    of sentence.
    sentence
    noun
    a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.

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The federal charges come weeks after Mr Matar rejected an offer from prosecutors that would have sentenced him to prison for a shorter period of time if he pleaded guilty.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2024

District Judge James Sweeney, who also ordered Waltz to pay a fine of $40,500, could have sentenced him to up to five years in prison on each charge.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

The court could have sentenced her to as much as 15 years on the corruption conviction.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

According to the ruling, the court should have sentenced him to somewhere between 17½ years and just under 22 years in prison, rather than between just under 22 years and 27 years in prison.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021

"All I did was tell the truth, and you have sentenced me to die, just for telling the truth. My time is now but your time will come!"

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti