Sentence examples for penal sanction from inspiring English sources

In Germany, too, privacy is protected, though more by precedent than by penal sanction.

Mr Cabeza de Vaca said that the mayor's actions may have been unlawful but did not merit a penal sanction.

The central instrument of such condemnation is the penal sanction attached to the law that defines certain harmful acts as crimes.

As within other continents, African MSM are particularly vulnerable to HIV, especially since in most African countries homosexuality is highly stigmatized; it may constitute a crime and penal sanctions can even entail the death penality [7], [8].

The imprisonment of a union official in 1969, in an attempt to recover payment, led to a wave of protest and to the tacit abandonment of penal sanctions.

In his opinion for the Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy said "none of the legitimate goals of penal sanctions — retribution, deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation — is served to justify life without parole for juvenile nonhomicide offenders".

The Goldblatt and Lewis report countered the 'nothing works' mantra as regards penal sanctions and rehabilitative treatment (especially cognitive behaviour therapy); early intervention for young at-risk children was also recommended.

Tragedies resulting from natural hazards may result in: (1) the risk of compensation payments from civil law claims (Budayeva and Garcés); (2) the risk of penal sanctions from criminal prosecutions (L'Aquila and Fernandez); and/or (3) the risk of factual findings (Sonfriere Hills Montserrat and Raoul Island New Zealand Island).

"In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state.

I argue that there should be a minimum intervention point triggering official action to depose management and shareholders, and then move to resolution, with an increasingly penal ladder of sanctions as equity capital falls towards this point.

Prescribing a legal obligation with penal and financial sanctions, without thinking through the mechanism for its enforcement, and the resulting lack of accountability, might mean that cases of failure to report fall through the cracks.