Sentence examples for courts punish from inspiring English sources

As more companies get caught up in these investigations, it will be interesting to see whether the courts punish repeat offenders more harshly.

In 2010, Congress passed the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the vast disparity in the way the federal courts punish crack versus powder cocaine offenses.

If Lavabit lost its appeal to the F.I.S.C.R., and still refused to coöperate, it would run a serious risk of being found in contempt; that's how most courts punish those who disobey its orders.

Turkey was in a more forgiving mood after Johnson won a magazine prize for a limerick depicting Erdogan cavorting with a goat written to ridicule the Turkish leader's efforts to have German courts punish a German satirist for insulting him.

Whereas the common-law courts punished "hanging crimes," such as murder and robbery, the Star Chamber dealt with more-sophisticated offenses, such as forgery, perjury, and conspiracy.

He also allowed courts to take previous convictions into account when sentencing, a change of direction from the policy of courts punishing for the crime, not on the criminal's history.

Lawyers representing Erdogan then got involved in the case, demanding that the court punish the cartoonists for "insulting a public official," Hurriyet newspaper reported.

The criminal courts must punish the punishers.

"The government must set up fast-track courts to punish the offenders in rape attacks," he said.

When the community is rightly angry it is the duty of the courts to punish more severely.

In the US, the power of the courts to punish for contempt by publication is extremely limited.