Sentence examples for before penalizing from inspiring English sources

Weeks before penalizing the bank, the people briefed on the matter said, Mr. Lawsky pushed PricewaterhouseCoopers to turn over additional documents about its correspondence with the bank.

The commissioners also discussed waiting as long as seven years before penalizing growers of the fuels with the greatest effects on food and land use changes, like the clearing of rain forests and the draining of peat land.

The federal agency that oversees national banks said Wednesday that it would tell banks to "exercise judgment" before penalizing customers who overdrew their accounts because money from the government did not arrive on schedule.

Moreover, U.S. Soccer advised referees in a 2010 memorandum, "Before penalizing a goalkeeper for violating this time limit, the referee should warn the goalkeeper about such actions and then should penalize the violation only if the goalkeeper continues to waste time or commits a comparable infringement again later in the match".

It is appropriate to work with students to find a solution, before penalizing them and before getting too far into the semester when habits may be harder to break.

Giambi told the newspaper, "I was wrong for doing that stuff," and added, "What we should have done a long time ago was stand up — players, ownership, everybody — and said, 'We made a mistake.' " Since any steroid use that Giambi may have been referring to occurred before baseball began penalizing players for positive tests, it seems doubtful that he will be suspended.

Ohno won two preliminary heats before being penalized for blocking an opponent.

Before we penalize police error, therefore, we must consider whether the sanction serves a valid and useful purpose.

Time-wasting is a common issue in soccer, but goalkeepers are almost always warned by a referee before being penalized.

Did he know just how nauseating it is to see a man crumple a woman with a single, almost nonchalant blow before he penalized Rice with a spineless two-game suspension?

I even miss the race to return movies before being penalized with a late fee.