Sentence examples for onerous punishment from inspiring English sources

And even if it does, his last day in office is March 7, so losing his job — the most onerous punishment he would face — is unlikely to have much bite.

When you cannot ban something outright, it's possible to make the process of obtaining it so onerous as to be a kind of punishment, Sanger argues, drawing on the ideas of the legal scholar Malcolm Feeley.

The refugees agreed that punishments for crossing the border had generally become less onerous, even though the police response is unpredictable.

Punishment for the sin of being late on a credit card payment is getting slightly less onerous for users who fail to pay their bills on time, according to a report issued Monday by CreditCards.com.

It's not onerous.

Nothing particularly onerous there.

Reporting requirements are onerous.

Making tantalum is similarly onerous.

Some are needlessly onerous.

It wasn't onerous.

She finds publicity onerous.