Sentence examples for highest punishment from inspiring English sources

Then, with pretzel-shaped logic, he added, "We were demanding the highest punishment possible".

"If the highest punishment possible was life imprisonment, we would have demanded that," he said.

But the highest punishment recommended for officials implicated in the accident is sacking, the report said.

The aggravated life term is the highest punishment in Turkey after it abolished the death penalty in 2002, and means maximum jail terms with tougher conditions.

Nebraska's bill would replace the death penalty with life without parole as the highest punishment.

While some bloggers wanted Mollah to be sentenced to death, which is the highest punishment in Bangladesh, Ahmed demanded a fair trial eventually leading to 100, 200 or 300 years in prison.

I told the attorney general, put it aside, because this would make a big story and very high punishment".

"Just yesterday [Thursday] a sex offender … was given a very high punishment under the law," she said, "but sometimes the delay and the whole process of the trial takes a bit of time to ensure justice".

Undoubtedly the amendment forbids any arbitrary deprivation of life, liberty, or property, and secures equal protection to all under like circumstances in the enjoyment of their rights; and, in the administration of criminal justice, requires that no different or higher punishment shall be imposed upon one than is imposed upon all for like offenses.

So the only reason to include the information about SAC's compliance is to build the case for a higher punishment of the firm while blunting public claims that prosecutors have ignored its extensive compliance measures in pursuing charges against the firm.

"The barrier of 70 games is certainly a high punishment, but on account of the various witnesses' questionings also defensible," Tirol FA spokesman Horst Scherl told BBC Sport.