Sentence examples for devastating penalties from inspiring English sources

In a report in January, the I.R.S.'s taxpayer advocate, Nina E. Olson, criticized the agency for not explaining the laws better to international payers; for issuing regulations so complex that compliance can be arduous and costly; and for issuing "potentially devastating penalties for even inadvertent noncompliance".

The moves would impose devastating penalties on the only officially recognized representative of the Palestinian people and could doom the chances for a two-state solution because building in the E1 area would split the northern and southern parts of the West Bank.

One foreseeable option by the government would be to put stronger teeth into existing policies and laws, so that devastating penalties are issued to any renegade companies.

IIRIRA made it significantly harder to legally immigrate to the United States, while adding devastating penalties for violating even minor parts of immigration law.

In addition, new regulations, such as GDPR and U.S. compensation history laws, have imposed steep penalties that could devastate your recruitment business.

Facing devastating financial penalties and jail time, Swartz hanged himself.

While the China affair ended without a devastating financial penalty, Loral was not so lucky with its most ambitious venture of the 1990's.

Against 10 men, the visitors should have been thinking about going for another goal and Messi will be absolutely devastated with his penalty miss.

"The failure of the supercommittee had to be at least anticipated, and the penalty to put the military at risk, devastating the finest military in our nation's history, is so out of sync with the party of Ronald Reagan.

An attack with a full-fledged nuclear weapon may seem unlikely in the near future, but the penalty for failing to act now could be devastating.

The penalties for spending money in tax-deferred accounts before age 59½ can be devastating.