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    Use "penalty" in a sentence

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    penalty


    1. I as principal can lessen the penalty, but since the two of you fail to cooperate or


    2. Hopefully, Anon understood that in the current situation that penalty no longer applied


    3. In countries where interest is permitted, the law in order to prevent the extortion of usury, generally fixes the highest rate which can be taken without incurring a penalty


    4. If he maimed or murdered any of them, he was liable to some penalty, though generally but to a small one


    5. that goes along with the process may be valid, but the final payment and penalty


    6. Just as a judicial court merits out the death penalty with the underlying


    7. 3, which, without expressly taking away the penalties imposed by former statutes, imposes a new penalty, viz


    8. made against the exportation of wool, among other things in the said act mentioned, doth enact the same to be deemed felony, by the severity of which penalty the prosecution of offenders hath not been so effectually put in execution ; be it therefore enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that so much of the said act, which relates to the making the said offence felony, be repealed and made void


    9. Besides the forfeiture of the goods, the exporter incurs the penalty of 3s


    10. And if any person compounds with the hundred for less than this penalty, he is to be imprisoned for five years; and any other person may prosecute

    11. Bond must be given that the wool to be carried coast-ways is to be landed at the particular port for which it is entered outwards; and if my part of it is landed without the presence of an officer, not only the forfeiture of the wool is incurred, as in other goods, but the usual additional penalty of 3s


    12. It has been taxed indirectly in two different ways; first, by requiring that the deed, containing the obligation to repay, should be written upon paper or parchment which had paid a certain stamp duty, otherwise not to be valid ; secondly, by requiring, under the like penalty of invalidity, that it should be recorded either in a public or secret register, and by imposing certain duties upon such registration


    13. “Well we have to go back you know that I feel the same way about Helen as you do about Mabel but you know the penalty for going AWOL on active service its death old chum and don’t you forget it just think were she would be then


    14. “You can’t be that young! The death penalty is only for over eighteens


    15. “Well we must prepare for the Courts Martial and put some kind of defence together but what that is going to be I don’t know yet the thing is at the moment your looking at the death penalty make no mistake about that


    16. The law dictates that she must serve her penalty


    17. "The penalty for spying is death, but that is too good for you


    18. Not returning from leave would have been regarded as desertion and that carried a serious penalty, so it seldom happened


    19. Life imprisonment in those years meant between 18 to 20 years, in practical terms for we had the death penalty as the supreme penalty and thus life seldom meant “life” for that, in effect, would be a death penalty which is not what the court had wanted


    20. Why use your effort and skill to defend a criminal who really should not be in society and deserved to swing at end of a gallows rope until dead, dead, dead - as the court says in a death penalty judgement

    21. It may surprise you though that I am not a supporter of the death penalty


    22. As a man and policeman I like the death penalty


    23. There is no more death penalty in South Africa, and the lack of it is blamed for the high crime rate


    24. It is really very sad, and all drug dealers deserve the death penalty


    25. It cannot be enforced which is why it is seldom used and you cannot have penalty clauses in this type of contract like for instance stating if you don't marry me by next week Wednesday you pay me 100 dollars a day penalty


    26. It leaders will need to provide comprehensive guidelines articulating its position on abortion, assisted suicide, affirmative action, civil rights, conservation, environmental and family issues, education and the death penalty, among a number of issues of immediate concern to many blue collar voters disheartened with ―business as usual‖ establishmentarians seated across both sides of the political aisle who seem to have forgotten the voters that elected them into public office or the reasons why they were elected to begin with


    27. Setting aside divisive issues like Abortion, Gay Marriages and the Death Penalty, most voters generally agree on the need for a balanced budget, economic growth, safer streets and better schools


    28. In some jurisdictions the death penalty is applied for kidnapping


    29. The Supreme Court, by a six to three margin, recently ruled that the mentally retarded could not be subject to the Death Penalty on the basis of ―evolving standards of decency‖, whatever that means


    30. The Supreme Court‘s recent decision rendering it unconstitutional mandating death sentences for juvenile offenders found guilty of murder to the Death Penalty, on the grounds that such draconian measures, especially as they relate to minors, should be considered offensive to a ―progressive‖ society‘s ―evolving standards of decency‖, has me puzzled

    31. They were all in Costa Rica hiding, she said, behind its laws that limit extradition to only the most serious of crimes and prohibit it if a death penalty awaits


    32. Had the top Bush administration officials been punished the same as Japanese war criminals who committed the exact same war crimes, at least six Bush officials and Bush himself would have and should have faced the death penalty for torture


    33. Justice of the Peace Norbert Krapholtz indicated the firm’s history of violations is, ‘not that bad,’ but he would not alter the penalty


    34. (Only about 2% of murderers receive the death penalty


    35. The law does provide for expanding the death penalty for terrorists, but so far that has not been used


    36. Turning to the Germans, the First Sergeant, close to shouting, asked in a loud voice, “You know what the penalty is for having firearms?”


    37. Why was he talking about the death penalty with me for?


    38. It had been easy to keep her distance from the low-status men from the settlement for they were aware of the penalty of approaching without invitation, but he had been different


    39. This not only earned him a five-place grid penalty for the start of the next race, but questions were asked about his sportsmanship


    40. If you’ve got the balls to do it that should be penalty enough

    41. The Congress recognizes this and has proposed a penalty to those who do not purchase insurance (which


    42. is unconstitutional) but the penalty recommended is so small that it would be cheaper to pay the penalty


    43. The priestly class, tiring of these pretensions, had ruled that any further claims would be treated as blasphemy, and would earn the penalty of execution


    44. But -there is always a but- He puts in their way the tree of good and evil, about which He warns them, very clearly, not to eat the fruit under penalty of certain death


    45. Clearly, God is merciful, loving, to the point that He does not keep the original death penalty and only sends them out, out of Eden to live with "the other" -the other people, men that had been conceived in the initial creation


    46. Anthony stood up and stated that it was not at all clear that the drop in murder rates was due to the reinstallation of the death penalty


    47. If history provided a classroom, then there had to be a penalty for not paying attention


    48. Penalty will apply on next tooth


    49. It is totally another matter to pronounce judgment against an individual and give them the penalty of death!


    50. Human Rights Violation; over 67 percent of all nations on planet earth have abolished the death penalty













































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    Synonyms for "penalty"

    penalisation penalization penalty punishment damage forfeit

    "penalty" definitions

    the act of punishing


    a payment required for not fulfilling a contract


    the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition


    (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game