Sentence examples for firm punishment from inspiring English sources
"Our military is at a state of full readiness, and if North Korea wages provocation, there will be firm punishment," he said.
The Revolutionary Guards issued a statement calling violence by the protesters a "horrible insult to Ashura" and called for "firm punishment of those behind this obvious insult," the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.
"Our military is at a state of full readiness, and if North Korea wages provocation, there will be firm punishment," a South Korean national security official, Cho Tae-yong, said in a statement.
The sentence was just short of what prosecutors had sought, tougher than those for previous Illinois governors convicted of crimes, and was widely viewed as a particularly firm punishment intended to send a loud, memorable signal in a state that has been plagued with political corruption for decades.
"Good sentencing is a combination of firm punishment and effective reform of the offender," he will say.
The parameter p is the auditing rate which captures the probability of being detected employing a worker in the informal sector and α is the associated firm punishment fee rate.
Ultimately, it will be the willingness of a jury to believe that Merck acted badly that will determine the firm's punishment.
But the mindset that the firm's punishment should fit the crime does little to insure that such fair market-defying risks won't be taken again.
In addition, the Times analysis showed, those settlements also repeatedly granted exemptions to the biggest Wall Street firms from punishments intended by Congress and regulators to act as a deterrent to multiple fraud violations.
Instead, the Vatican has issued nonbinding guidance that punts the scandal back to the authority of local bishops, who still will not face firm oversight or punishment for cover-ups that recycled hundreds of abusive priests.
The $1.2 million to be paid by the Dallas firm, Crossroads Investment Company, is punishment for having paid what the Ethics Commission determined were illegal contingency fees to two Hartford-region consultants who helped the firm gain access to treasury officials starting in 1987.
