Sentence examples for enormous penalties from inspiring English sources

It has the option of rejecting the standards and pulling out of the job, risking a court fight and enormous penalties.

The sentencing disparity was enormous: penalties for crack under a 1986 drug law had been commonly referred to as 100 times greater than those for powder cocaine; the new rules brought the disparity to 18 to 1.

More than a dozen emerging economies have restructured their sovereign debt in the past decade without huge losses of output and without paying enormous penalties in exclusion from capital markets or higher spreads.

On Dec. 1 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's seven-year extended prohibition on new oil and gas development off the Florida and eastern Atlantic coasts is once again adding enormous penalties to our already ailing economy and employment market.

The Postal Service has been crippled by a series of accounting rulings that have imposed enormous penalties on it ever since it was first established as a government-run company (as opposed to a government agency) in the early '70s.

Most of the reasonable people I know believe that we must do most of the following: Quit printing money, demand China play by the same rules the rest of the world does with regard to their currency, spend less on the military and demand accountability on what we do spend with enormous penalties for fraud.

"They've created a scenario where there's an enormous penalty," he said.

From the start, Judge Lynch was struck by the defendant's youth and the "enormous penalty" he could face.

Because of pending legislation on President Bush's desk that is expected to become law by June 16th, any American who wants to surrender his passport has only a few days to do so before facing an enormous penalty.That penalty is buried in an innocuous piece of legislation with the veto-proof name, Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax (HEART) act.

Patient's assignment to the dummy ward is accompanied by an enormous penalty cost and is interpreted as a dismissal.

Withdrawing from the project would have exposed G.E. to a long court fight and potentially enormous financial penalties.