Sentence examples for highest sanction from inspiring English sources

"Senator Ensign has admitted and apologized for his conduct and imposed on himself the highest sanction of resignation.

"Senator Ensign has admitted and apologized for his conduct and imposed on himself the highest sanction of resignation," the statement said.

Experts estimate California has spent at least $4bn more on its penal system than it would have if life without parole was the highest sanction.

Incarceration is the highest sanction the state can impose on an individual and, in my view, the state that inflicts it ought to administer it.

He said the pontiff's decision to refer to the mass killing of Armenians along with crimes perpetrated by Nazism and Stalinism gave the Vatican's "highest sanction" to genocide recognition.

This is the highest sanction of the UN agency, which is made up of trade unions, employers' groups and government representatives from 187 member states, including Qatar, India and other south Asia nations.

She said: "You have to not have turned up, not have taken a job, rejected jobs, not turned up for an interview, walked out of a job … there are serious things to get the highest sanctions – 0.05%.

Russia's secret police could never forgive Litvinenko's treason in going public, but his murder surely had higher sanction.

Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

When both the probability and magnitude of sanctions may be varied, the usual solution involves a very high sanction and a relatively low probability of enforcement if individuals are risk neutral.

This might lead to the conclusion that higher sanction rates could help.