Sentence examples for penalty constituted from inspiring English sources

Yes, the tax penalty constituted a mandate.

As recently as 2008, Romney was comfortable with the idea that such a penalty constituted a tax.

Instead, the three-judge panel held that the penalty constituted a tax, which triggers a Reconstruction-era law that forbids a person from challenging a tax until that tax has actually been paid.

Sentencing a 14-year-old to the death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment".

But in a forthcoming issue of the Yale Law Journal Online, two legal scholars argue that the Anti-Injunction Act by its own terms should not apply to the individual mandate, even if the Supreme Court sides with the minority of lower-court judges to hold that the mandate's penalty constitutes a tax.

Those who had pulled their money out of A.I.G. argued that their tax penalties constituted injuries.

The question of whether the law's penalties constitute a tax has been considered in a number of the court challenges because the Constitution grants Congress broad authority to levy taxes to support the nation's general welfare.

The United States Supreme Court ruled that Georgia's death penalty law constituted "cruel and unusual punishment," which violated the Constitution because of the arbitrary manner in which it was imposed.

That's right, writing in 1972 the Court argued that "the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty... constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments".

Ray Anderson, the N.F.L.'s executive vice president for football operations, said a 30-yard penalty would constitute "contemporaneous accountability" and impose "a contemporaneous negative impact on your club, like the defensive-pass-interference penalty or the kicker kicking the ball out of bounds".

There would be an exception "if the foreign death penalty offence is constituted by conduct that involves a terrorist act or act of violence that causes death or endangers life".