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That's 86 years, although such a stiff sentence is considered unlikely.

If only one turns state's evidence, he goes free while the other receives a stiff sentence.

Seven cases went to trial, each ending in a stiff sentence.

This time, he got a stiffer sentence: two to four years in prison.

A man with your record could collect a stiff sentence for those, Ford.

The bill would create several new felonies with stiff sentences.

I'm sure the moral majority will be demanding stiff sentencing.

The results of that hearing might give the judge cause to set stiffer sentences.

We will continue to seek stiff sentences for this behavior."

The stiffest sentence in the latest trials was 13 years.

The legal system did work, however, and his murderers were convicted, with stiff sentences.

The rest of the Crew got stiff sentences, too.

All of those institutions sent representatives to Wednesday's hearing to press for a stiff sentence.

Making this a Federal case will also subject any convicted officers to stiffer sentences.

Prosecutors at the state and federal level worked toward stiffer sentences for gun crimes.

"It's a pretty stiff sentence he put on himself."

The states responded with stiff sentences for certain crimes.

Despite another stiff sentence, he was freed in less than a year with his health seriously weakened.

In the film, the characters are given stiff sentences; one, life in prison.

Stiff sentences are being given to young people.

And many legal experts believe that for the crimes to which he pleaded guilty, 10 years was a stiff sentence indeed.

It turned out to be a relatively stiff sentence: three years in prison and a $2 million fine.

He could face decades in prison for these crimes, although such a stiff sentence is unlikely under Federal guidelines.

The judge imposed the stiffest sentence within the federal guidelines, which recommended terms of 78 to 97 months.

A Klan leader and one other defendant got the stiffest sentences, 10 years in prison.

And a federal judge responded with a heavy sentence, 10 years in prison.

But no burglar would have received such a heavy sentence.

Their trial began this evening, and was expected to conclude with heavy sentences.

Thus we could have given a heavier sentence if not bound by said convention.

The gravity of the second would be reflected in heavier sentences.

But some of the accused are still facing the death penalty and the others face heavy sentences.

Those identified as leaders of the uprising received the heaviest sentences.

The heaviest sentence was 10 years in prison, for accidental homicide.

The most important prisoners - the "ringleaders" - will get heavy sentences.

Even an attempt at defense is taken as an anti-Government insult and can lead to heavier sentence.

They are overcrowded because we are giving out increasingly heavy sentences.

Until now, he had received the heaviest sentence of any figure in the Wall Street scandal.

Heavy sentences for the summer rioters should be encouraged, it is said, because they "give the right signals".

In the current scandal, the heaviest sentence has been a year and a day in prison.

But the court disregarded this and imposed a heavy sentence on the 27-year-old from north Staffordshire.

The heaviest sentence received was 10 years and the lightest was 3.

By Law 5349 dated 11 May 2005 the differentiation between light and heavy sentences was lifted.

The advice was said to tell the courts that they could ignore existing sentencing guidelines and hand down heavy sentences.

You will not be treated more leniently than residents and drug dealers in particular can receive heavy sentences.

It was the second heavy sentence in a sexual abuse case in Manhattan in a week.

Lee's heavier sentence for the same offense was likely due to his prior criminal record and admitted drug trafficking.

Many exponents of the insurrection were captured, tortured, and finally received heavy sentences.

This was a particularly heavy sentence, and he lived in The Hague prison from 1738 until his death, aged 69.

All three appealed in a civil court, and the prosecution appealed for heavier sentences.

"If they only violated orders, then a heavier sentence should be handed down to those who gave the orders."

"You've learned how to talk in long sentences since I last saw you."

Make ten longer sentences with and, but, then or because.

Women doing long sentences are obviously going to try and find someone to be close to.

But you do come to a limit with long sentences.

How could he with his wonderful long sentences learn anything from her?

A longer sentence is meaningless to a man of 42.

At this time, both men were already serving a 15 and 17 year long sentences.

For those serving longer sentences, the change meant years more.

Many of them drew long sentences, but most have been released since.

It was the longest sentence he had said since they got there.

It was the longest sentence she'd ever heard him speak.

Only the threat of a long sentence forced him into treatment.

The last son is returning from a long sentence in prison.

There are many reasons to avoid using long sentences when writing.

I could understand how prisoners feel when they return home after having served a long sentence.

He said a longer sentence would have no deterrent value.

Those serving long sentences will be returned to the general prison population.

Words ran together in one long sentence along the hem.

In one breath she would leap through long sentences and difficult terms.

"I'm going to give it to you in one long sentence.

Convictions carry very long sentences - up to 25 years.

Small amounts, but enough to get him a long sentence on his second offense.

A long sentence is going to have a lot of entropy in it.

This is the longest sentence in history for a political corruption case.

The longest sentence so far has been a 30-year jail term.