"penal sanctions" is correct and is used in written English.
It usually refers to punishments imposed by the government or a court of law for a crime or infraction. For example, "If the defendant is found guilty, they may face stiff penal sanctions, including a hefty fine and jail time."
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.
I had always thought our civilization has assumed that the threat of penal sanctions had something more than a 'speculative' effect on a person's conduct.
602, they are rendered nonpersons; a father may ignore them with full knowledge that he will be subjected to no 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".
But I think that in contempts, as in other areas of the law, penal sanctions should be used sparingly and only where coercive devices less harsh in their effect would be unavailing.
In Germany, too, privacy is protected, though more by precedent than by penal sanction.
Foucault then identifies, in a third moment, a turn to the 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.
In this sense, I presume you reserve to the Govt. a right to appoint particular days for religious worship throughout the State, without any penal sanction enforcing the worship.
