Sentence examples for be made more severe from inspiring English sources

If the sanctions that presently attach to a violation of §2511 1)(a) do not provide sufficient deterrence, perhaps those sanctions should be made more severe.

The court explained that if the sanctions now attached to the underlying criminal act "do not provide sufficient deterrence," then perhaps they should be "made more severe" — but "it would be quite remarkable to hold" that an individual can constitutionally be punished merely for publishing information because the government failed to "deter conduct by a non-law-abiding third party".

Laws passed in 1954 provided for heavy fines on journalists thought to have damaged the prestige of the state or the law; several prominent journalists were prosecuted under this law, which was made more severe in 1956, while other laws substantially abridged the independence of civil servants (including university teachers) and judges.

The infighting has been made more severe by the increasingly perilous situation on the ground.

Scientific analyses have shown that many extreme weather events have been made more severe or more likely by climate change.

But that has been made more severe by fixing the interest rate at the highest level of any such system in Europe.

His countenance is made more severe by a balding pate and an often furrowed look, as if he is squinting into a bright light or being asked a question whose premise he disagrees with.

The difficulty is made more severe, because there are speakers with a demonstrated inability to understand belief and other cognitive attitudes.

A recent salmonella outbreak at Foster Farms was made more severe because the bacteria were antibiotic-resistance, resulting in an estimated 40% of the victims being hospitalized.

Latinos have the highest rate of asthma in the country, are twice as likely to visit the hospital for asthma, and according to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health, Hispanic children are twice as likely to die from asthma attacks, which are made more severe by poor air quality.

Medullary ischemia is made more severe by an increase in oxygen consumption (due to increase in tubular reabsorption), an increase of intratubular pressure secondary to contrast-induced diuresis, increased urinary viscosity, and tubular obstruction, all frequently associated with dehydration and decrease in the effective intravascular volume [ 10].