1.   Watson showed no emotion when the judge handed out the sentence.

2.   When the Richardson sentence was handed down, a blaze of publicity focused on Mrs Mandela, appeared in the media.

3.   And many will turn out once again to pick at the scabs of their raw emotions when the sentence is handed down.

4.   Especially harsh sentences were handed out to three members of the evangelical South China Church, a Christian sect banned by authorities under an anti-cult law.

5.   In March, the servicemen were handed prison sentences.

6.   No charges had ever been filed against them, no trials held, no sentences with terms handed down.

7.   No wonder Zdravko Mucic smiled when his sentence was handed down.

8.   No money is handed over until a sentence has been handed down.

9.   Several of the defendants were reached by telephone, but declined to be interviewed until their final sentences are handed down in August.

10.   When the sentence was handed down, it was something of an anticlimax.