It's making a complete sentence, so to speak.

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One of Harbaugh's most used tactics is the vague answer a string of "possibilities" and "maybes" that sometimes make a complete, grammatically correct sentence.

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The admonition came after the judge conducted several monthly updates with the actress and required her to perform morgue cleanup duty to complete her sentence in a 2007 drunken driving case.

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Such a sentence would require him to complete five years under supervision and following certain conditions.

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If he is given a prison sentence following a U.S. trial, he would return to England to complete the rest of his sentence there before flying back to be imprisoned in the United States.

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Passing sentence, Sheriff Arthurson said court reports concluded Gibb had expressed a complete "lack of remorse" for attacking Chalmers.

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In the words of the pre-sentence report he had 'a legacy life' - a complete change of identity - 'He was trained by the police in counter-surveillance and has had to live and hold a lie for the rest of his life.

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"I'm also issuing a new goal for America, " Obama said Tuesday night, and before he could even complete the sentence, he had to know that there were plenty of people who would automatically reject whatever words would follow and would not be shy about it.

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