Sentence examples for courts hand from inspiring English sources

What types of penalties do those courts hand down for sex offenses?

If laws were broken, will the courts hand down guilty verdicts?

In the spick-and-span El Paso detention centre, America's largest, officials sigh if the courts hand down a deportation order for illegals from Cuba, Iran or Iraq.

Whenever the courts hand down a ruling not to the ANC's liking, one of its leaders tends to complain of "untransformed" or "counter-revolutionary" judges.

In addition to whatever punishment the SEC and courts hand out, he will have the misery of watching other people influencing his newspapers.

Finance-ministry officials complain that courts hand out suspended sentences to large-scale tax evaders rather than put them in jail.

Courts' hands are tied because of sentencing guidelines.

And in early May the courts handed him another political defeat.

The courts handed down sentences to looters which were designed to be exemplary.

America was reminded of that last month, as courts handed federal regulators two setbacks in as many weeks.

EARLIER this month Vietnam's courts handed out long jail sentences to 14 young democracy activists and bloggers accused, on the flimsiest of evidence, of subverting the state.