Sentence examples similar to meted for from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve a question that has vexed the lower federal courts since Congress enacted a law to narrow the gap between sentences meted out for offenses involving two kinds of cocaine.

In 2009, the Justice Department issued a memorandum to federal prosecutors announcing its intention to "seek a revision of the law" in order "to eliminate the disparity" between sentences meted out for crack convictions and those for powder cocaine.

Punishment will be meted out for messages deemed to promote disrespect for the country's institutions or "alarm" among the population.Mr Chávez justified the enabling law a device he has used previously during his dozen years in office as a necessary response to flooding that has killed 40 people.

The punishments for D.W.I. are far more severe than those meted out for leaving the scene of a property-damage accident, which can elicit up to 15 days in jail and/or a $250 fine.

In its statement, the Brotherhood said that wives should not have the right to file legal complaints against their husbands for rape, and husbands should not be subject to the punishments meted out for the rape of a stranger.

The Muslim Brotherhood (distinguished here from President Morsi's government) makes a statement on a proposed United Nations declaration to condemn violence against women complaining: "Wives should not have the right to file legal complaints against their husbands for rape, and husbands should not be subject to the punishments meted out for the rape of a stranger".

Announcements of prominent hires, including Matthew Dowd, former strategist for President George W. Bush, and Major Garrett, former Fox News White House correspondent, were meted out for maximum impact.

Brutal punishment is meted out for malingering.

It is meted out for its own sake.

Indeed, the punishments meted out for money laundering do not exactly qualify as a deterrent.

It has taken many deaths to change society's thinking about domestic abuse, and to toughen the justice meted out for such crimes.