For example, English sentence structures focus on agents, and in our criminal-justice system, justice has been done when we've found the transgressor and punished him or her accordingly (rather than finding the victims and restituting appropriately, an alternative approach to justice).

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Long term offenders will continue to be monitored by the probation service for about the same length of time as their prison sentence - for example, an offender given an 18 month sentence will serve nine months in prison, and nine months on licence in the community.

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Conversely, for example, you might read a sentence like this: 'Malcolm Gladwell's book, 'The Tipping Point, ' introduced a term that is now in wide currency.

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The safety of society requires that an example be made in your case, and the sentence of the court is, that you be transported for the term of your natural life.

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For example, the BOP unilaterally abolished the shock incarceration program, spending unnecessary millions by replacing sentence reductions and increased home detention with prison time for nonviolent offenders with minimal criminal history.

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And how, for example, do you treat a German compound verb, or a Hungarian word formation which can incorporate a whole sentence?

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If you take for example Mark Dreier, former New York-based multi-millionaire attorney who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, he spent this time filming the documentary Unraveled directed by Marc H.

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