Sentence examples for become punishable from inspiring English sources

Sharing social media posts which threaten violent hate crime could become punishable by six months in prison under proposals issued yesterday.

That check would become punishable by a two-minute or five-minute penalty if the proposed rule is approved this season or next, or if the league imposes supplementary discipline in the interim.

Deliberate or reckless behaviour towards patients will become punishable by up to five years in prison and £5,000 fines under the government's amendment to the criminal justice and courts bill.

One can easily imagine how improper facial expressions might slide down the slippery slope to become punishable offenses.

It would have made it a crime not to report gay people - and even talking about homosexuality without criticising it would have become punishable by a prison term.

It would have made it a crime not to report gay people - and even talking about homosexuality without condemning the lifestyle would have become punishable by a prison term.

Under section 144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, squatting in residential premises becomes punishable by up to six months' jail and fines up to £5,000 in England and Wales.

From November 1932 a single day's unauthorized absence from work became punishable by instant dismissal.

But the new religious government demolished the area, and prostitution became punishable by lashing.

In the United States and northern Europe, vagrancy must generally be accompanied by the act of begging before it becomes punishable.

In England, dissection was linked in the public minds with dishonour and desecration of the soul so much so that high-level crimes became "punishable by dissection" in the 1752 Murder Act.