Sentence examples for differing penalties from inspiring English sources

Many countries, including Canada, Australia and America, distinguish date rape from stranger rape with several offences of differing gravity and differing penalties.

The differing penalties stem from determinations by federal authorities and Manhattan prosecutors that the bank's suspected wrongdoing was much less extensive than the state banking regulator's claims that Standard Chartered had schemed with Iran to hide from regulators 60,000 transactions worth $250 billion over a decade.

MEPs urge EU member states to harmonise their markedly differing penalties against those who trade, take, capture or possess specimens of protected wildlife,and urge them to ensure that wildlife criminals are sentenced to penalties commensurate with the seriousness of their crimes, including up to four years in prison for organised wildlife crime.

Most significantly perhaps, the Black Codes enacted offenses containing differing penalties for black versus white citizens.

Re "Indonesians Differ on Penalties for the Past" (news article, Aug. 27): Forceful prosecutions of those who committed rights abuses in Indonesia and East Timor are necessary if Indonesia is to build a democratic future.

The NHL and IIHF also differ in penalty rules.

The report found the use of penalties differs across job centres and employment schemes.

Penalties differ in individual states, but in Negri Sembilan, where the 26-year-old lives, convicted offenders may be sentenced to up to six months in prison, fined as much as 1,000 ringgit, about $325 ,or both.

For some offences, the penalties differ depending on the age of the perpetrator; except in the case of certain offences specifically relating to sexual activity with under-13s, the maximum sentence for a person who was under 18 at the time of the offence is five years' imprisonment, whereas for over-18s the maximum terms range between 10 years and life imprisonment.

The alignment quality with the default FUGUE tables differed little as the penalties were changed.

The NHL and IIHF differ also in penalty rules.