Sentence examples for proportionate penalty from inspiring English sources

"It is recognised," it said, "that the most demanding challenge in relation to framing the rules on this subject is finding the balance between a proportionate penalty and one that also acts as an effective deterrent.

Mr. Clinton may have won acquittal in the Senate, but he lost some of his reputation and legacy in the process -- a large and poetically proportionate penalty for whatever crimes he may be accused of.

Both should apply the same principle of due process and proportionate penalties to all similarly situated Peruvian prisoners.

In the rare instances that women commit heinous crimes, community protection and the need to impose proportionate penalties requires a prison term but this should be the exception, not the increasing norm.

Anyone teaching or listening to the listed errors would be excommunicated, unless they turned themselves in to the bishop or the chancellor within seven days, in which case the bishop would inflict proportionate penalties (CUP 1: 543).

The penalty for anyone teaching or listening to the listed errors was excommunication, "unless they turned themselves in to the bishop or the chancellor within seven days, in which case the bishop would inflict proportionate penalties".

Not all fouls in the box are serious enough for a penalty to be a proportionate punishment.

"To be proportionate, the penalty must go no further than what is reasonably necessary to reflect his level of wrongdoing," the solicitor argued.

The legislation also specifies that 'effective, proportionate and dissuasive' penalties or financial fines may apply in the case of non-compliance with the data protection rules.

The new GDPR provides that member states shall define 'effective, proportionate and dissuasive' penalties or fines that may be applicable to organisations of the public and private sectors failing to comply with the rules for data protection.

More specifically, it states that: Without prejudice to Member States' civil liability regimes, Member States shall provide for effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties in respect of statutory auditors and audit firms, where statutory audits are not carried out in conformity with the provisions adopted in the implementation of this Directive (art. 30.2 chap. VII, Directive 2006/43/EC).