Sentence examples for major punishment from inspiring English sources

He escaped major punishment partly by showing his paintings in court as evidence of his hapless naïveté.

"We believe that the loss of freedom is the major punishment, so we try to make it as nice inside as possible," said Merja Toivonen, a supervisor at Hameenlinna.

The SFA has a strict no-betting policy on football games and if found guilty Barton could face a ban but Barton is unlikely to face a major punishment if the alleged gambling was restricted to one incident.

Michigan admitted to a series of violations in its football program but also said it did not think that the problems related to practice time and coaching activities warranted major punishment from the N.C.A.A., which will hold a hearing on the case in August.

The fine under consideration at the Federal Trade Commission, which began investigating Facebook last year, would be the first major punishment levied against the social media giant in the United States since before reports emerged last March that the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had improperly accessed the personal information of about 87 million Facebook users.

"Teachers might tell people off, but there are not major punishments," Ruby-Leigh says.

His major novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868 69), The Possessed (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879 80)—are filled with riveting, often unstable characters and dramatic scenes.

The titles of the first five episodes, "Captain Cook", "Corporal Punishment", "Major Star", "Private Plane" and "General Hospital" are puns based on the pairing of a military rank and another word related to the episode's content.

But national security officials from both the Bush and Obama administrations say such a ban would create major obstacles to swift punishment of terrorism suspects.

Both sides in the debate agree that a major reason the capital punishment process has been so slow in California is that there are not enough lawyers experienced in the often-complicated laws on the death penalty.

While Diallo's action of inflicting three broken ribs, a punctured lung and a bruised right cheek on Ammann will go without punishment by Major League Soccer, Petke's action was under review by the league's disciplinary committee in Manhattan yesterday.