"penalty" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Should any of the charges be sustained, the committee will need to impose an appropriately stern penalty, stripping Mr. Packwood of his seniority or expelling him from the Senate.
- Rather than accept Vincent's terms, Steinbrenner baffled many by instead negotiating a much sterner penalty that permanently kept him away from effective operation of the club.
- China is applying stern criminal penalties for smugglers ranging from 12 years in prison to life.
- While I was there, coincidentally I hope, the N.C.A.A. trumped Wisconsin's self-inflicted wrist slaps with sterner, yet still not particularly harsh, penalties.
- The peasant spoke in puzzlement: "Why should they bring so stern a penalty?"
- But the bill's sponsors tried to ease those concerns by specifically outlawing cloning and establishing stern penalties for anyone convicted of using cells to create a human clone.
- Germany, determined to preserve the stability of its beloved mark, demanded stern and virtually automatic penalties for governments that get too lax.
- Now you must pay a stern penalty: a gold crown, at the very least!
- "My father has drilled honesty into me from Day 1," the son said today, adding that childhood infractions were met with stern penalties that have never been forgotten.
- Someone at Samuel French, the company in charge of licensing the scripts, learned of the performance and quickly faxed a letter to the school warning of stern penalties if it went ahead with the scheduled performance.
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