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Penalty in sentence

327 examples of Penalty in a sentence

No one shall be condemned to the death penalty, or executed.”
Elections Without WinnersWhen football matches – at least those that must produce a winner – end in a draw, a penalty shoot-out must resolve the matter, as this World Cup has demonstrated so dramatically.
The Death Penalty – AgainPRINCETON – Three significant events relating to the death penalty occurred in the United States during September.
Texas Governor Rick Perry was reminded that during his term of office, the death penalty has been carried out 234 times.
The US is now the only Western industrialized nation to retain the death penalty for murder.
The European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights regards the death penalty as a human-rights violation.
The death penalty is not an effective deterrent.
In the US itself, the 16 states that have abolished the death penalty generally have lower murder rates than those that retain it.
Retribution is often seen as a more important justification for the death penalty.
Thus, King believed that, “one who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, […] and with a willingness to accept the penalty.”
Some kind of penalty or subsidy thus has to be applied to encourage banks to issue them.
The Jewish revolt against Greek rule in the second century BCE, which Jews now commemorate annually as Hanukkah, was caused in part by a decree banning circumcision under penalty of death.
A fixed penalty price for non-compliance will send the right signal of the world’s collective recognition that our economic future is inextricably linked with our environmental future.
In fact, huge protests against a recent bill that would have banned virtually all abortions (under penalty of imprisonment for up to five years) forced the government to back down and withdraw the proposed legislation.
The prisoner whose release it has demanded in exchange for Goto is Sajida al-Rishawi, who faces the death penalty in Jordan for her role in hotel bombings in Amman in 2005.
That is a serious competitive disadvantage to add to the penalty of being at a greater distance from the EU’s center of economic gravity.
Such an agenda includes simple measures, like reducing fees for visas, and more complex reforms, like allowing migrants to switch employers without penalty and increasing the proportion of migrants who enjoy legal protections and labor rights.
Countries are not obliged to sign it, and they may withdraw from it, with no penalty, if they change their mind.
But the US did not wait for a WTO ruling to confirm its claim and to authorize the imposition of tariffs as a penalty for China’s rules violation.
For example, the PiS’s promises to reintroduce the death penalty and return Poland to its conservative Christian roots violate EU and Council of Europe standards.
Beyond the annual payment per patient, the health-care company could receive a bonus or penalty, depending on the outcomes achieved.
But when global markets get out of control, the penalty for not Westernizing in time can become very high indeed.
Those disagreements are not only about Israel, or US tariffs on steel imports from the EU, or the possibility of American courts imposing the death penalty on suspected terrorists who carry European passports; they increasingly embody a fundamentally different vision about how the world should work.
The girl was burned to death soon after – and some believe as a penalty for – reporting the rape.
The British Foreign Office’s annual human rights report for 2004, the most comprehensive in the EU, condemns China’s extensive use of the death penalty (even for such crimes as corruption, pimping, drug offenses, and tax fraud), its systematic torture of dissidents, and its restrictions on freedom of speech – including the Internet – and religion.
Soldiers charged with mutiny have received the death penalty.
Three factors, not all of which are being discussed, seem to explain the size of the penalty.
What is the modern equivalent of branding with a scarlet “A,” which was the penalty for adultery in colonial New England?
In some Islamic nations – Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, for instance – sodomy is a crime for which the maximum penalty is death.
The tribunal, which tries cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity, found a prominent member of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, guilty of complicity in the killings of 300 people, but gave him a relatively light sentence of 15 years in prison (prosecutors had sought the death penalty).
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