Sentence examples for penalty raised from inspiring English sources

There have been issues of the death penalty raised as well.

The penalty raised Janzen's score to seven over par and he missed the six-over-par cut.

The questions about the death penalty raised by the advent of DNA testing will not be answered by making execution more humane.

She pledged to support tax deductions to help with college tuition, easing the marriage penalty, raising the minimum wage, and expanding the earned income tax credit.

The rate of error found in appeals in death penalty cases ranged from 100percentt in three states -- Kentucky, Maryland and Tennessee -- and 91percentt in Mississippi, to 18percentt in Virginia, by far the lowest of any of the 34 states with the death penalty, raising questions about whether Virginia's court system is unusually fair or works to make it hard to detect errors.

The president of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, Stephen Blanks, said the penalties raised serious concerns.

The growing evidence of a problem led the French to tighten their gun laws in 2012, creating tougher sanctions for gun trafficking, with penalties raised to a €100,000 fine and seven years in jail.

Sexual assault laws have been tightened, definitions of assault expanded and penalties raised (though the laws have yet to be ratified) -- prudence.

(Hospital-level bonuses or penalties raise the additional issue of how to attribute those to individual stays).

Issues of race, law enforcement and the death penalty are raised, of course (though conflicting accounts and other gray areas are skirted).

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has questioned the fairness of the death penalty and raised the possibility that innocent people had been executed.