Sentence examples for penalty available from inspiring English sources

A Ministry of Justice consultation will seek views on whether the current maximum penalty available to the courts should be increased.

The benefit of a money laundering charge is the substantial penalty available for a violation: up to 20 years in federal prison.

Leveson calls for an increase in the maximum penalty available under section 55 of the Data Protection Act which governs data theft and makes it an offence "knowingly or recklessly" to obtain or disclose personal data.

The former chief executive of Massey Energy was sentenced this week to a year in prison for willfully violating mine safety standards – the highest penalty available under the law.

Would the reader want to share a jail cell with Aaron Fuller?" Texas law makes the death penalty available for about a dozen categories of murder, including those committed during a robbery or a sexual assault, those done for hire and those in which the victim is a child or a police officer.

Some 122 students stand accused of cheating on term papers in a popular introductory physics class, with as many as half of them expected to face the only penalty available for cheating here: expulsion or loss of degrees awarded in earlier years.

But there are more targeted penalties available.

She is critical of the penalties available to prosecutors for poaching crime.

Graham urged MPs to increase the penalties available to be imposed on those who abuse their position of trust by illegally exploiting or passing on data collected by the police, intelligence services and other government agencies.

The penalties available to the house in cases of contempt include the power to summon a person to the bar of the house to be reprimanded, to imprison them and to fine them.

He does not address the agency's sluggish investigative pace, the wrist-slap penalties available to it or its meager resources for reviewing corporate audits and monitoring market fraud.