In either such case, this drastic penalty must be both reasonable and necessary.
Another brief, from social workers and organizations working with sexual assault victims, describes the Louisiana law, with its broad definition of rape and its drastic penalty, as counterproductive and likely to lead to under reporting of offenses, especially within families.
Drastic new penalties have been imposed for violating broadcasting laws.
Quite why she faces this drastic a penalty is hard to fathom, given that the rest of Roth's future society seems wholly bent to the task of identifying and nurturing the skillsets of its teenagers.
However, drastic yield penalty is observed [ 32] and a pure-amylose line has never been produced before, and it is therefore general consensus that biosynthesis of pure amylose cannot be achieved directly in plants.
The leaders, in a bipartisan move, called for tough new fines, which in some cases could not be waived, and for a drastic increase in penalties on the promoters of sham transactions.
Sometimes the last-ditch handball is so desperate, the punishment of red card and penalty so drastic, that the perpetrator's dignity goes out the window.
Perry did not call for decriminalization, a less drastic step that replaces criminal penalties for drug possession with the rough equivalent of a parking ticket.
Subsequently, Clinton's Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act enabled a drastic escalation in the use of the death penalty.
I hope his or her response is proportional to this minor crime — nothing as drastic as a firing or even financial penalties; at least not for a first offense.
