Sentence examples for amounts to excessive from inspiring English sources

Her lawyers argue that the Nassau law is unconstitutionally vague and amounts to excessive punishment.

His case has become a rallying cry in Israel, where leaders say his nearly three decades in US prison amounts to excessive punishment.

But in the ruling today, issued after a brief hearing, Judge Jones said that the state law should remain in effect, at least temporarily, while he heard the broader challenge being mounted by the state and at least four terminally ill patients, who contend that Mr. Ashcroft's directive amounts to excessive intrusion into Oregon's right to regulate medicine.

WASHINGTON — There have been many hundreds of varied rulings in the lower courts on when the use of Taser stun guns by the police amounts to excessive force, and sooner or later the Supreme Court will have to bring order to this area of the law.

The defense was so fast and so energetic that the Bucs were penalized 15 yards after all three interceptions, two for what amounted to excessive celebrating.

While the ruling left the three officers in the clear, it did put them and their colleagues on notice that some future uses of Tasers would cross a constitutional line and amount to excessive force.

"The manner in which the parents used force and the injuries that resulted, lead me to conclude that the spanking in this case amounted to excessive corporal punishment".

However applying the precautionary principle to EIDs in an attempt to protect the public can result in what, in retrospect, amounts to an excessive response.

McKinsey calculates that this amounts to $26 billion in excessive spending each year.

The registration and notification rules — the result of efforts by victims' rights advocates, crusading journalists and tough-on-crime politicians — violate basic legal principles and amount to an excessive and enduring form of punishment.

The court of arbitration for sport said: "Legia Warsaw argued that the Uefa rules and guidelines surrounding the need to include Bartosz Bereszynski's name on the official list submitted to Uefa were unclear and amounted to 'excessive formalism' and that the sanction was disproportionate".