Sentence examples for excessive severity from inspiring English sources

It is against the excessive severity of the punishment, as applied to the offenses for which it is inflicted, that the inhibition is directed.

Robespierre — now firmly committed to the most militant brand of Jacobinism — condemned the "treacherous insinuations" cast by those who questioned "the excessive severity of measures prescribed by the public interest".

It does not alter its character as cruel and unusual that for each distinct offense there is a small punishment, if, when they are brought together, and one punishment for the whole is inflicted, it becomes one of excessive severity.

He p37 was ruined by his old-fashioned strictness and excessive severity — qualities which we can no longer bear.

We were unable to ascertain whether such findings were due to excessive severity and instability of patients, or because other rescue therapies had been used instead of prone positioning.

This is important given that both the untreated systemic infection as well as models with excessive severity may strongly skew the model towards the more pronounced organ damage and artificially pre-program the outcome [1].

The inhibition is directed, not only against punishments of the character mentioned, but against all punishments which by their excessive length or severity are greatly disproportioned to the offenses charged.

The severity was excessive.

The study reported that magnitude of injuries involving SUVs was higher than Sedan vehicles, and the major reason reported for higher degree of severity was excessive speeding [3].

None of the existing rules is ideal; weaknesses include low sensitivity or specificity, excessive complexity, underestimation of severity in younger patients, and poor prediction of ICU admission.

The overall patterning of the results concerning help-seeking and symptom trajectories over time suggests that the largest part of the change in symptom severity of excessive behaviors in this study is to be considered as spontaneous and not (professionally) assisted recovery.