Sentence examples for is too severe from inspiring English sources

The problem is not that the penalty is too severe; severity is no doubt in order.

"But this is too severe a penalty".

At other times the penalty is too severe.

Do you think the punishment of Suarez is too severe?

The Iraq-linked damage to U.S. credibility is too severe to be quickly undone.

"There is some guilt, but the punishment is too severe," he said.

Turns out they didn't help me; the company said that my colorblindness is too severe.

(Besides, in Coker v. Georgia, the Supreme Court held that death is too severe a penalty for rape).

The familiar squeeze would not do — too mild — and crisis, cousin to crisis of confidence, is too severe.

If the pilot's manipulation of the controls is too severe, the computer will specify a more moderate path.

His thug is too severe and, in youth-gang terms, too morally commanding to be a figure of erotic fantasy.