In the third grade, we were told to figure out its purpose based on the rest of the sentence and the related events in the story.

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Mr Sweeney, originally from Merseyside but lived in London, was serving a life sentence for the attempted murder of a third girlfriend but had been the prime suspect in the killings, the court was told.

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On mandatory sentencing, I live in Western Australia where we were so fed up with the level of crime and the pathetic sentences handed out that a regulation requiring a prison sentence for a third instance of breaking and entering was forced on parliament.

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Born in Soviet Georgia in 1937, he received his first prison sentence in 1957 for resisting arrest and, during his third in the 1960s, became a "thief in law", a Russian term comparable to a Mafia "godfather".

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