Hindawi became eligible for parole in 2001 after serving one third of his sentence, and must be released on parole no later than 2016.

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He could choose a fast-track, closed-door trial that would entitle him to a one-third reduction of his sentence if convicted.

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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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In Ghana in 2008, around one-half of young women and one-third of young men could not read a sentence even though they had spent six years in school.

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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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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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He faces a third count of conspiring to transmit that information, which carries a maximum sentence of five years.

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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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