condemn
Her sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.对她的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
As it was her first conviction for stealing, she was given a less severe sentence.
In some countries, drug-smuggling still carries the death sentence.在某些国家，贩毒仍要被判处死刑。
The judge made an example of him and gave him the maximum possible sentence.为了以儆效尤，法官在法律许可的范围内对他作出了最重的量刑。
He won his appeal and the sentence was halved.他上诉获胜，刑期减半。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Judges & juries
bench
chief justice
circuit judge
court of inquiry
dismiss
empanel
judge
judiciary
jurist
juror
jury nullification
jury service
recusal
recuse
resentence
rule
set something aside
sheriff
sum
worship

sentence | American Dictionary

sentence
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsen·təns/

sentencenoun[C] (GRAMMAR)

grammar
a group of words, usually containing a subject and a verb, expressing a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation, and, when written, starting with a capital letter and ending with a period or other mark:
Your sentences are too long and complicated.

sentencenoun[C] (PUNISHMENT)

a punishment given by a law court to a person or organization that is guilty of a crime:
She served a three-year prison sentence.
sentence
verb[ T ]
us/ˈsent·əns/
to officially state the punishment given by a law court to a guilty person or organization:
He was sentenced to three years in jail and fined $40,000.

Examples of sentence

sentence
These were 4 x 6 color photographs of figurines positioned to correspond to the events described in the sentence stimuli.
Accepting the purely syntactic part of this extremely simple analysis, let us consider the semantics of the sentence.
The participants read 60 sentences in random order in a sentence reading task.
Such sentences with an active sentence construction but a reversal of thematic roles were absent from the data.
The participants were told that they would hear each sentence four times in a row, with less noise on each successive presentation.
The data were analysed as case studies and for common themes, as expressed in single words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs or even entire documents.
The third factor examined the role of the sentence structural constraints.
Likewise, the identical rater training scheme employed only 2 words and 2 sentences.
Responses determined to be scorable were utterances that had sufficient structure to be deemed full or partial passive sentences or full or partial active sentences.
The 'could' in the first sentence is worth noting but, passing quickly over this point, the 10 per cent figure seems arbitrary, at best.
The language is stilted, typical 'translatorese', so much so that some sentences are virtually incomprehensible.
However, since these effects were not consistent across ages, whether co-referencing complexity alone is driving sentence-processing speed is unclear.
In the event that they understood only part of a sentence, they were to write out as many words as they could identify.
This is useful in situations where the actual position of a word within a sentence is significant.
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sentence

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automatic sentence
That purpose is to maintain judicial discretion within the framework of an expectation of an automatic sentence.
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