Sentence examples for formal penalties from inspiring English sources

Without provoking North Korea with formal penalties or a naval blockade, North Korea's neighbors seek to pressure it to drop its clandestine nuclear weapons program.

Considering the sensitivity of the information that is kept, it is not unreasonable to have a formal penalties regime introduced if metadata is inappropriately accessed by public officials.

But Mr. Cuomo will report that Daniel Wiese, a former State Police colonel who once headed the governor's bodyguard detail, exerted inappropriate influence at the agency long after he retired to take a job at the New York Power Authority, the two people said, though it is unclear whether he will face any formal penalties or charges.

In the former, existing relationships and history of working can shape the way in which commissioning / contracting is undertaken with less formal processes, flexible timetables and little use of formal penalties.

There was no formal penalty attached to the letter.

A formal penalty regime should be in place to make sure that no public servant is tempted to inappropriately access the information of their fellow citizens.

It is not a formal penalty, but because couples often must pay a higher tax than they would have owed on the same incomes had they remained single, it certainly feels like a penalty.

Drivers also incur no formal penalty for ditching passengers at any time before they get in the car.].

There is no formal penalty for any bank which continues to stack Elgar £20 notes in its cash machines.

A report on the cost of the death penalty authored by Justin Marceau, of the University of Denver Law School, and Hollis Whitson, a Denver attorney who has represented a number of capital defendants, reveals 22 formal death penalty prosecutions for the period 1999 through 2010.

They all ended inconclusively with admonitions, complaints and requests for clarification but with no formal censures or penalties.