Sentence examples for punishment every year from inspiring English sources

In the past four decades, between two and three nations have abolished capital punishment every year (eight since 2010), and today fewer than a fifth of the world's countries execute people.

Senator Volker sponsored a capital punishment bill every year for many years until it was adopted.

As punishment for a past revolt, every year a boy and a girl ('tributes') are picked at random and sent to the Capitol to fight to the death in the titular Hunger Games.

The maximum punishment is a year's imprisonment, or a fine, or both.

Violators face a maximum punishment of a year's suspension from school.

Another bill provides a punishment of one year of corrective labour for slandering government officials.

The possible punishment: 10 years in a United States prison.

Even if such a leaker deserves sanctions, Jaffer added, a fine or community service is a more appropriate punishment than years in prison.

Somewhat more recently, in 1871, Mother Mary MacKillop was excommunicated — the church's severest punishment — four years after founding a religious order for women in Australia.

For this victimless "crime", Parliament's law is still punishment by years of imprisonment.

Younger patients were significantly more likely to attribute mental illness to illicit drugs and alcohol (mean age 28.4 years versus 35.7, p = 0.001) and as God's punishment (30.5 years versus 35, p = 0.04).