Sentence examples for hefty sentencing from inspiring English sources

So what impact has hefty sentencing had on the graffiti community itself?

Eight years for any offence is a hefty sentence.

I wonder whether their relative obscurity insured that they could receive hefty sentences.

One man receiving such a hefty sentence may well, as Mr Justice Cooke wanted, send a signal to bankers.

Anelka was given the hefty sentence last August for his role in the controversial mutiny against France head coach Raymond Domenech at the World Cup.

There is no doubt that the murder was carried out by members of the urban guerrilla Red Brigades, several of whom were given hefty sentences for the crime.

As a foreign national and a fraudster likely to receive a hefty sentence, Black will not serve his term in the equivalent of an open prison, but a minimum- or medium-security federal institution.

On July 14th, just after Italy's national team had triumphantly brought home the World Cup, a sporting tribunal won the country sincere, if bemused, admiration when it imposed hefty sentences on the four clubs, which among them provided over half the players for the national squad.

As allowed by Italian law, the prosecution has also lodged an appeal and will be aiming to increase to life the already hefty sentences passed on the two former lovers – 26 years for Knox, one year fewer for 26-year-old Sollecito.

The ANC have proposed a statutory Media Appeals Tribunal to adjudicate on complaints against the press, and passed a Protection of State Information Bill, known as the "Secrecy Bill", to clamp down on leaks and whistleblowing and threaten investigative journalists with hefty sentences for a wide range of "state security" offences.

Such a large amount would normally merit a long, drawn-out legal process with a hefty sentence at its conclusion.