Sentence examples for extraordinary punishment from inspiring English sources

Russia's track and field team is barred from competing in the Olympic Games this summer because of a far-reaching doping conspiracy, an extraordinary punishment without precedent in Olympics history.

In the case of inmates who have been deemed institutional risks or have been gang-validated are often held in isolation indefinitely, without having gone through a judicial process sentencing them to the extraordinary punishment of permanent isolation, and without a formal process to appeal the decision.

By the standards of the Vatican, the punishment was extraordinary — impossible under John Paul.

The problem is that many human beings respond to punishment with extraordinary resilience.

The Rugby Players Associationn (RPA) described the punishment as "extraordinary" and "unprecedented".

"Two discredited papers have subjected a leading Japanese research center to an extraordinary form of collective punishment," wrote Dennis Normile in this week's Science.

Milan's Gennaro Gattuso will discover on Monday the extent of his punishment following his extraordinary antics in Tuesday night's Champions League encounter with Tottenham.

At the same time, imperial administrators reserved for themselves extraordinary powers of arrest and punishment that extended to collective reprisals against entire tribes.

The Sisters, he said, had done extraordinary work in times of appalling poverty, and physical punishment, while now seen as wrong, was common then.

Judge Weinstein has gone to extraordinary lengths to challenge the strict punishments, issuing a series of rulings that directly attack the mandatory five-year prison sentence faced by defendants charged with receiving child pornography.

Such acts, they said, "fall far short of being so extraordinary as to justify a reduction in punishment".