Sentence examples for punishment guidelines from inspiring English sources

Berman said, in effect, that the N.F.L.'s punishment guidelines were unclear, and that its appeals process wasn't fair and didn't work.

On Thursday, in a letter sent to the owners of the National Football League's thirty-two teams, the commissioner Roger Goodell introduced new punishment guidelines for any league personnel who commit offenses relating to domestic violence or sexual assault.

As it is, Selig has gone well beyond the strict punishment guidelines outlined in the drug agreement: this is technically A-Rod's first drug-related suspension, and so under the rules he should be kept off the field for just fifty games.

The arbitrary punishment is contrary to NSAC punishment guidelines.

Many officers called on department leaders to return to using punishment guidelines that set ranges for how various misconduct should be disciplined.

We need no rules, no punishments, no guidelines.

An effort to allow felons additional time to reduce their punishments under guidelines established by a 2014 ballot measure made it through the Assembly on Tuesday.

Under current federal laws, conviction for the sale and possession of 50 grams of crack cocaine is punishable by a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison; it takes 5,000 grams of powder cocaine to trigger the same punishment under the guidelines.

Macdonald told the Guardian: "Some of the offences that have been committed are exceptionally serious and they require grave punishment, and the sentencing guidelines cater for this.

"Today's verdict is positive in that it broke the old pattern of giving a suspended three years' prison term, but it still is the minimum punishment under the current guidelines by the Supreme Court," the civic group said in a statement.

For those who violate the guidelines, the punishment is draconian: Offenders are sentenced to watch, without interruption, the collected speeches of Syria's stolid and solemn foreign minister, Walid Moallem, known for his long-winded monologues, until they "commit suicide or spontaneously combust, whichever comes first".