Sentence examples for penalties enacted from inspiring English sources

He also drew up the code of crimes and penalties enacted by the Convention in October 1795.

The state issued some 400 elver-fishing licences, and an Indian tribe provided 200 more to its members, but poaching remained widespread despite stiffer penalties enacted by legislators after prices started to climb last year.

The bill is not everything reformers hoped for, but it does begin to undo the draconian criminal penalties enacted largely in the 1990s, toward the end of the great crime wave that began in the late 1960s.

Also, New Jersey, instead of offering rebates, has a thriving market for Solar Renewable Energy Certificates, which enable owners of solar installations to sell their clean energy credits to utilities looking to avoid penalties enacted by the state for generators of "dirtier" energy.

Richard Durbin (D-Ill). and Mike Lee (R-Utah) last July, would cut mandatory minimum sentences in half for some drug offenses, make the reduced crack penalties enacted in 2010 retroactive, and expand the category of defendants eligible for sentencing below the mandatory minimums.

Before that, he helped draft anti-meth legislation in 1998 that mirrored the stiff penalties enacted a decade earlier to combat crack.

"If you are talking about a disciplinary code that is breached and the penalty enacted might be a spear in the thigh, by today's values that would be something broadly unacceptable," said Philip Ruddock, the minister of immigration and multicultural affairs.

[C6.] Tax Expert Urges Tougher Penalties The tough penalties Congress enacted to discourage abusive corporate tax shelters are so riddled with loopholes that they fail to deter tax cheating by large companies, Congress's top tax expert told a Senate committee.

Oregon, the first state to liberalize its marijuana penalties, had enacted its law effective October 1973.

New York, for instance, recently banned subprime prepayment penalties and enacted an enforceable standard to connect making a loan to a borrower's ability to repay it.

Severe civil and criminal penalties were enacted after the Nixon administration's rifling of private tax returns to build the "enemies list" aimed at government harassment.