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An example is a skillful way in which his terrier Tony opened the garden gate, easily misunderstood as an insightful act by someone seeing the final behavior. Lloyd Morgan, however, had watched and recorded the series of approximations by which the dog had gradually learned the response, and could demonstrate that no insight was required to ...
In United States legal terminology dead time is time spent institutionalized by a defendant that does not count as credit toward the defendant's sentence.An example would be time spent confined in a mental hospital while the defendant is being restored to competency to stand trial, or halfway house time pending sentencing can also sometimes be dead time.
Examples include sentences like The critic wrote the book was enlightening, which is ambiguous when The critic wrote the book has been encountered, but was enlightening remains to be processed. Then, the sentence could end, stating that the critic is the author of the book, or it could go on to clarify that the critic wrote something about a book.
IN FOCUS: Many of the women in prison are there for low-level crimes, but short sentences for non-violent offences can upend their entire lives, leaving them at risk of losing their job, home and ...
The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.
Documents feature prominently in all manner of business and personal affairs. Almost any type of document may become disputed in an investigation or litigation. For example, a questioned document may be a sheet of paper bearing handwriting or mechanically-produced text such as a ransom note, a forged cheque, or a business contract.
Investigators found at least three other incidents in which Bullard — who sold gourmet beef jerky online — had threatened corporations he believed had “wronged” him, according to the document.
Mortgage and refinance rates for Dec. 27, 2024: Average rates for 30-year benchmark hover at 7.00% after post–Fed cut spike