Sentence examples for extreme penalties from inspiring English sources

Essentially, Tagliabue said the players were guilty of misconduct but not worthy of the extreme penalties Goodell imposed on them.

Why Isis waited this long is unclear, but the extreme penalties and the high price of internet means Isis's policy is more or less respected.

On occasion these poor, in Florence as all over Italy, rioted when bread was scarce, but they were normally powerless to organize efficiently against guilds and governments both of which could impose extreme penalties on anyone who defied their authority.

Last year, some three dozen lawyers for big foreign firms were gathered in a room by an NDRC official and warned not to challenge its inquiries or risk facing extreme penalties.

The announcement reflected another step by the president's more pragmatic hard-line rivals to blunt his call for the arrest of reformist leaders and his demand that those on trial face the most extreme penalties.

For USC, extreme penalties forced leaders of the football program to make administrative changes; however, the question remains: did the culture of football actually change?

Life imprisonment was the extreme penalty that the inquisitor could impose; the death penalty was imposed and carried out by the civil authorities.

In his first major speech since becoming Communities Secretary, Greg Clark told the Local Government Association: "For centuries, to be exiled - to be sent away - was considered to be an extreme penalty, reserved for the most serious of offences against the community.

He cites the 1890 Supreme Court case In re Medley, in which Justice Samuel Miller noted the extreme penalty of the practice in deciding whether the punishment could be applied ex post facto in the case of a man who had already been sentenced to death.

He is the first food executive to be the subject of a federal felony conviction in connection with an outbreak, and if he receives a life sentence at his next hearing, on September 21st, as new court documents seem to suggest, it will be the most extreme penalty ever levied in a food-poisoning case.

The international community, the UN, the Commonwealth and the EU must do everything they can to make sure this vulnerable woman does not suffer the extreme penalty and that others, like her, are not subjected to months and even years of harassment, imprisonment and anxiety as they await a final verdict on their cases.