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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.
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.
In typical criminal law, time served is an informal term that describes the duration of pretrial detention (remand), the time period between when a defendant is arrested and when they are convicted. Time served does not include time served on bail but only during incarceration and can range from days to, in rare cases, years. A sentence of time ...
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed, but semantically nonsensical. The sentence was originally used in his 1955 thesis The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory and in his 1956 paper "Three Models for the ...
A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: "Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [39] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable ...
The fighting gets ugly and Rip shows up just in time to save Beth from being choked. Then comes the finale's major twist: Beth kills Jamie dramatically, stabbing him. Rip gets rid of Jamie's body ...
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency - whose mission is to help people before, during and after disasters - fired an employee who advised her survivor assistance team in Florida to not go ...
Reality TV producer Mark Burnett ('The Apprentice," "The Voice," and "Survivor") was named the UK special envoy by President-elect Donald Trump.