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

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The state supreme court ruled last December that he had to complete the sentence, despite the 31-year delay.

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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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This week Mr Berlusconi received yet another criminal conviction (for bribery), complete with jail sentence.

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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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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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Reader and Arena Pharmaceuticals investor Charlie Brothers e-mailed me with this question today in response to my Arena post on one sentence in the complete response letter.

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

BBC: Stephen Baldwin

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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