Sentence examples for penalized persons from inspiring English sources

In 1998, for example, the United States passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which expanded owners' control over digital forms of their creations and penalized persons who sought to evade technological shields (such as encryption) for copyrighted material.

Inflation distributes the burden of war costs in an arbitrary manner, penalizing persons with fixed incomes.

The agency is concerned that smaller investors are being penalized, a person with direct knowledge of the inquiry said in March.

The judge dismissed the case and penalized the person who initiated the suit.

"You don't want to penalize the person who's in office," Mr. Berman said, by forcing him to cover all expenses for security, for example.

"Can we penalize that person instead of all the people who didn't have anything to do with this?" But the coaches in many instances enable cheating.

But, he said, since the new policy penalizes a person merely because of a family relationship with a building employee, and was apparently announced only on the night of the annual meeting, there is a good chance that a court would deem the change arbitrary and invalid.

It's simply un-American to penalize a person or a company for acting on a bright idea.

It penalizes the person who suffers a loss by reducing the deductibility of that loss.

The draft calls for countries not to criminally penalize any person -- adult or minor -- for selling his or her own sexual services.

The provider may decide to penalize the person as a result of your report.