Sentence examples for imposed harsh penalties from inspiring English sources

In May, the court upheld a different Arizona law, one that imposed harsh penalties on businesses that employed illegal immigrants.

In 2011, it sustained a different law that imposed harsh penalties on businesses that hired illegal workers.

Indonesia, the most populous country in Southeast Asia, also imposed harsh penalties for many crimes, including the death penalty for drug trafficking.

Remember the debate in January 2012 over the Stop Online Piracy Act, which would have imposed harsh penalties for even the most minor and inadvertent infraction of a company's copyright?

A month ago, the Commerce Department imposed harsh penalties on Chinese telecom giant ZTE, which U.S. officials determined had not complied with a previous settlement over illicit sales to Iran and North Korea.

Most significantly, Matt Hancock, the culture secretary, said the government would seek repeal of Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, which might have imposed harsh penalties on newspapers that declined to join a state-sponsored press regulator.

He imposed harsh penalty clauses and threatened his clients, even though some were unable to feed their families.

The previous year, 40 states had imposed harsher penalties for drunken driving.

Over the last decade, new domestic violence laws have imposed harsher penalties on offenders, and provided more help for victims, including emergency shelters and panic buttons, have become available.

The measure was folded into a massive, omnibus crime bill that also built new prisons, hired more police officers, and imposed harsher penalties on criminals, among other things.

(The Senate had by then voted for a similar ban). The measure was folded into a massive, omnibus crime bill that also built new prisons, hired more police officers, and imposed harsher penalties on criminals, among other things.