Sentence examples for penal past from inspiring English sources

Perhaps, despite our much-vaunted anti-authoritarian streak, Australia's penal past has left us with an automatic deference to uniformed authority.

Their efforts resulted in the promulgation of a commercial code (1850), a commercial procedure code (1861), a maritime code (1863), and a penal code (1858).

The German codes of 1871 (penal code) and 1877 (procedure) provided the models for other European countries and have had significant influence in Japan and South Korea, although after World War II the U.S. laws of criminal procedure were the predominant influence in the latter countries.

Vietnam passed a revision of its penal code last year, which will come into effect in July 2016.

For many, Mr. Hughes's most memorable book is "The Fatal Shore" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1987), the history of white Australia's brutal birth as a penal colony two centuries ago.

But the Empire State has also had a historic knack for getting out of bad penal positions early.

She has been at the distant women's penal colony since October, serving the remainder of a two-year sentence on charges of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred".

A reform of the penal code earlier this year increased police powers, giving them the right to detain suspects for up to 80 days without charge.

This comes after the Sultan of Brunei, who owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels, unveiled a strict sharia (Islamic law) penal code last month.

UCPD officers patrol on campus properties and a mile in all directions from campus properties, per Education Code 92600 and Penal Code 830.2.

In Basel, however, he achieved local prominence for his part in devising new governmental and penal codes (1813, 1821) and reorganizing the city university.