Sentence examples for punishable in from inspiring English sources

In most Islamic societies, homosexual behavior is a crime, punishable in some cases by death.

But thoughtful, considered, iconoclasm is still too rare and increasingly punishable in the courts of public opinion.

He is now on trial in a special court for the crime of economic plunder, which is punishable in extreme cases by death.Mr Estrada says he is innocent.

Under a law that makes sexual offenses against children abroad by Americans punishable in the United States, he faces up to two hundred and ten years in prison.

(At the moment, possession of more than 28.5 grams of marijuana, about an ounce, is punishable in most cases by up to six months in prison and a $500 fine).

The charges, a hate crime punishable in France by up to six months in jail and a fine of up to €22,500, or about $32,400, usually ensnare far right French politicians who generally avoid prison sentences.

Abortion first became a codified and punishable crime in England in 1803 when Lord Ellenborough's Act was passed.

Though she goes without a veil while in Western countries -- a punishable offense in Iran she has avoided calling for a secular state in her own country.

Evolutionarily, one may think about guilt and shame as feelings that help an individual to avoid potentially punishable behavior in the future by punishing it internally now.

In Thailand, sexual harassment officially became a punishable crime in 1998, but the law hasn't changed much since then.

At the time peaceful protests were a punishable offense in prison, and some inmates were left in the hole for a year after the hunger strike.