Sentence examples for penal measures from inspiring English sources

The Vatican added that in Ireland, bishops were "free to apply the penal measures of canon law to offending priests," and that they had "never been impeded under canon law from reporting cases of abuse to the civil authorities".

A Whitelaw government would have differed from the opposition through its imposition of "short, sharp, shock" penal measures – as in reality, they didn't work, were expensive, and would still have contributed to the breakdown in law and order in the summer of 1981.

In a few states and in the federal criminal code, the so-called penal, or criminal, codes are simply collections of individual provisions with little effort made to relate the parts to the whole or to define or implement any theory of control by penal measures.

Pakistan has instead chosen to focus on implementing penal measures that are based on Islamic principles of jurisprudence.

1This Act prohibited prostitution, abolished all control systems regarding prostitutes and enabled penal measures to be undertaken against those patients who did not fulfil their duty to comply with examination, treatment and to report the identity of their sexual contacts.

"In the grand scheme of things, this is not a penal measure, it's a protective measure," he said.

Adolescents from 12 to 23 years old were often coercively placed in the center by either a civil or penal measure.

Apart from crime decrease the tendency of magistrates to convict young people to a civil instead of a penal measure also caused this vacancy.

Seward and his party allied with dissident Democrats and others to pass some legislation, including penal reform measures, for which Seward would become known.

Since the penal-code measure to ban all abortion procedures was established in 1998, there have been 628 women imprisoned for this offense.

Since the penal-code measure to ban all abortion procedures was established in 1998, there have been 628 women imprisoned for this offence.