0 present participle of sentence --
1 to decide and say officially what a punishment will be: --
He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
There is no sentencing, no jail cell at the end of a long corridor waiting to swing shut with a deafening, metallic clang.
That the university courts were concerned to limit the effects of a dispute is also evident in their sentencing practices.
The second is the sentencing, to which epistemological shortcomings are irrelevant.
Law's moral power may be realised through sentencing by developing the capacity for judicial discretionary decision-making to shape social reality.
During one period of intensive prosecution, from 1808 through 1812, the sentencing rate in libel cases was only 20 per cent.
Most surveys show that people consistently underestimate the severity of sentencing.
From 1595 to 1627 a complete female/male sentencing reversal took place.
Neither did analysis of court sentencing point conclusively to preferential treatment of women over men, though there were some indications of greater leniency.
