Sentence examples for different penalties from inspiring English sources

But Paul Steven Miller, a commissioner with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said he was concerned that different penalties for hiring and firing cases would send a signal that some forms of employment discrimination are more offensive than others.

Should not our legal system take account of the scale of harm caused, much in the same way that we have different penalties for possessing Class A, B or C drugs?

The United States Sentencing Commission held hearings last February to discuss whether the punishment for child-pornography offenders has become both disproportionate and unfair — with people who committed similar crimes receiving vastly different penalties, based on the subjective decisions of judges.

We repeat this for various cost factors to cover different penalties for False Negatives.

This paper considers a parallel machine earliness/tardiness (ET) scheduling problem with different penalties under the effects of position based learning and linear and nonlinear deterioration.

Different thresholds corresponding to different penalties in terms of primary system capacity degradation will be used in Section 5 of this paper.

(Different penalty orders can be readily implemented by changing the difference matrix D accordingly).

For such a parallel system of justice to stand a chance of being legal, it would require parliament to pass a law authorising a different standard and a different penalty as the editorial concedes.

Based on an unusual clause in Chinese law, men have been able to argue that sex with minors — meaning those under 14 — is not rape if the girl is paid, but instead constitutes the crime of "spending the night with a young girl in a brothel," which carries a different penalty, possibly resulting in five years in jail and a fine.

Different penalty terms have been considered for this task.

Fig. 6 Weighted SP recovery based on the diagnosed supports with different penalty values.