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Synonyms for sentence

punishment

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condemn

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convict

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Synonyms for sentence

a judicial decision, especially one setting the punishment to be inflicted on a convicted person

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to pronounce judgment against

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Synonyms for sentence

(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed

the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned

pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law

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The last statement of the essay sententially warns us against the facile nature of these accusations and the intractable "error" that de-legitimizes them: "It is much easier to accuse one sex than to excuse the other.
I also include the propositional mode of irrealis in the concept of negativity, expressed both discursically, sententially and lexically.
The principal interactions between the media are that information portrayed in the diagram can be introduced as sentences in the textual proof, sentences justified by 'observation', and information proved sententially can be entered into (or 'applied' to) the diagram, fleshing out the diagram with more information.
In addition to the usual non-truth-functional S-connectives found in philosophical discourse, such connectives can be extracted from (or created on the basis of) sentences that purport to be about facts, propositions, or psychological states, or indeed anything else that is naturally expressed sententially; for example, it is a trivial exercise to construct two-place entity-identity connectives from sentences, e.g.
While sentences are structured sententially (hence, the term), diagrammatic representations can more directly convey information about relationships among ideas (except, perhaps, when those relationships are sequential).