Discretionary circumstances of sentencing is a tool that laws grant judges and can make them play a balance role in criminal sanction in the light of specific conditions of concrete cases.

酌定量刑情节是法律赋予法官的一种工具，使其能根据具体案件的特殊情况，发挥平衡刑事制裁的作用。

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However, compares his specialty to come, what he even more excels is the secondary occupation: Enforces justice on behalf of Heaven, kills these to escape the legal sanction criminal!

不过，比起专业来，更加擅长是第二职业：替天行道，杀死那些逃脱法律制裁罪犯！

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Criminologists have long recognized that sanction justice influences the citizen's compliance with the sanction, the deterrent effect of sanction and the authority of criminal justice system.

犯罪学家很早就发现，制裁公正性影响着公民对制裁的遵从性，影响着制裁的威慑力与司法机构的权威性。

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This is reserved for cases where HMRC needs to send a strong deterrent message, or where the conduct involved is such that only a criminal sanction is appropriate.

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