Sentence examples for judicial penalties from inspiring English sources

Indeed, in a country where hostile takeovers are a rarity, and hostile takeovers by foreigners virtually unknown, almost everything about Vodafone's tilt at Mannesmann was deeply unpopular.If found guilty, Mr Ackermann would almost certainly have to resign, whatever the judicial penalties (which include fines and prison sentences of up to ten years).

Mr. Conquest's account of the "terror-famine" of 1932-33 is a chronicle of the most fearsome suffering - of people driven mad by hunger, of others driven to cannibalism, of fiendish judicial penalties (a woman sentenced to 10 years for picking 10 onions from collective land, for example) meted out by well-fed officials.

"On the face of it, however, the reward does appear modest, given the potentially harsher judicial penalties that apply in a conviction for an armed robbery," the authors conclude.

Although participants in Arrest Referral might receive lesser sentences for entering treatment, more recent interventions have even greater coercive elements with lesser judicial penalties in return for treatment compliance [ 11].

In many cases these collateral consequences -- blanket legal prohibitions and extra-judicial penalties -- are more severe than the initial criminal sentence that provoked them and grossly disproportionate to the charged offense.

There are a wide-range of potential physical and mental health outcomes to arrest and imprisonment abroad that may be different in foreign jurisdictions due to language, culture, judicial processes and penalties imposed.

Blume, John H. and Eisenberg, Theodore, "Judicial Politics, Death Penalty Appeals, and Case Selection: An Empirical Study" (1999).

An Islamic court in northeastern Bauchi State has sentenced a man to death by stoning for adultery, the first man in the country to face the penalty, judicial officials said.

The second asks people whether they agree or disagree with administrative and judicial policies that increase penalties when the probability of detection is low and decrease penalties when the probability of detection is high.

The announcement led some Democrats among Mr. Ashcroft's former Senate colleagues to promise a vigorous examination of his record on abortion, the death penalty and judicial appointments.

But few cases involving public companies come within these guidelines because most investigations these days are settled without a criminal conviction but instead through a deferred or nonprosecution agreement that does not require any judicial oversight of the penalty.