Crossword clues for sentencing
sentencing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sentence \Sen"tence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sentenced; p. pr. & vb. n. Sentencing.]
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To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.
--Dryden. To decree or announce as a sentence. [Obs.]
--Shak.To utter sententiously. [Obs.]
--Feltham.
Wiktionary
Relating to a judicial sentence. n. The act of pronouncing a judicial sentence on someone convicted of a crime. v
(present participle of sentence English)
Wikipedia
"Sentencing" is the 13th episode and finale of the first season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon and Ed Burns and was directed by Tim Van Patten. It originally aired on September 8, 2002.
Usage examples of "sentencing".
In the sentencing phase of the trial, the jury sentenced Jessie to life in prison without parole for the murder of Michael Moore.
Nothing about the trial had proceeded smoothly, nor would the sentencing that began the next day.
United States Circuit Court of Texas sustaining the judgment of a United States District judge sentencing to jail an attorney and his client for presenting the judge a letter which impugned his impartiality with respect to their case, still pending before him.
Where a court inadvertently imposed both a fine and imprisonment for a crime for which the law authorized either punishment, but not both, it could not, after the fine had been paid, during the same term of court, change its judgment by sentencing the defendant to imprisonment.
Even without such clearly partisan sponsorship, this massive assemblage of the Petersburg intelligentsia in the heavily charged atmosphere created by the massacre at Bezdna, the student demonstrations, the proclamations, the arrests, and the recent sentencing of Mikhailov could hardly have avoided taking on the significance of a public protest.