Sentence examples for onerous sentences from inspiring English sources

Innocent people, in prison for months or years, sometimes plead guilty to get out of jail; onerous sentences are too often given for minor crimes; people can lose civil rights, like the right to vote, as a result of criminal convictions.

The bank thinks that involving the private sector will let the authorities net some bigger fish and has the added benefit of eliciting more onerous sentences, as offeA nders can be tied to serious offences and not just relatively lightly penalised forest crime.

A bill that reduces this onerous sentencing disparity has passed the Senate easily.

Jamel Dossie, meanwhile, is serving what Judge Gleeson called an onerous and disproportionate sentence.

The onerous Rockefeller drug laws impose long sentences on first-time offenders even for nonviolent crimes.

If Samina Malik is sentenced today to anything more onerous than 10 days on a creative writing workshop we will have seen a serious miscarriage of justice.

There's no general rule, except that the sentence should be longer or more onerous in some way if an offence is found to be a "hate crime", but the impact in particular of an offence being found to be a hate crime would be very significant.

There's no general rule, except that the sentence should be longer or more onerous in some way  if an offense is found to be a "hate crime," but the impact in particular of an offense being found to be a hate crime would be very significant.

Adding to the outrageousness of the sentence and anger of the public is the decision of the defendant to appeal the sentence on the ground it is too onerous.

Botticelli supported the Justice Department's efforts to shed the more onerous drug war era initiatives such as requiring mandatory minimum sentences for even low-level drug possession.

In one striking sentence, Baumbach and Gerwig seemed to set themselves an onerous writing challenge: "Maybe she has some idea of how she thinks the world should work which people make fun of, even she knows is ridiculous, but in the end kind of happens for her".