Sentence examples for down penalties from inspiring English sources

After all, didn't Silvio Berlusconi's government water down penalties for false accounting?

But is this effort, an oversight committee without the power to hand down penalties, enough?

"I'm not in the position of Roger Goodell, one who hands down penalties or makes those decisions," he said.

With all three changes made, legs heavy, and a man down, penalties seemed their only way through.

By laying down penalties for mischievous acts, the legislator would make it unprofitable for a person to harm his neighbour.

Russia and China — which have veto power on the Security Council and strong economic ties with Iran — have previously insisted on watering down penalties.

If he goes down, penalty.

Mike Dean turned down penalty appeals from Cole and Fernando Torres, neither of whom would agree with the neutral view that he had a fine game.

Referee Michael Russell then infuriated the home fans by turning down penalty shouts after Elliott Ward appeared to shove Ings as the striker looked to steady himself on the edge of the box.

After a fourth-down penalty in an overtime victory over Kansas, Tuberville slapped a graduate assistant in the head, making his headset fly off.

That allowed Spithill to call for a slow-down penalty, which the New Zealand boat executed immediately, and any hope of winning, apart from an Oracle catastrophe, evaporated for New Zealand immediately.