"punishment imposed" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It describes the act of putting a punishment or penalty into effect. It is typically used in a legal or formal context. Example: The judge announced the punishment imposed on the defendant: six months in jail and a fine of $10,000.
"The punishment imposed is laughable.
But I still believe the nature of the offense warrants the punishment imposed in this case".
The punishment, imposed by Uefa's disciplinary panel on 13 December, was widely criticised for being too lenient.
During submissions today, James Sturman QC had pleaded for any prison sentence to be suspended and a community punishment imposed.
Solitary confinement in this country has devolved from a short-term punishment imposed infrequently for violating prison rules into a routine form of prison management.
And yet Willie Joseph's life sentence was effectively the same as the punishment imposed on the most vicious killers in California.
It says that while the churches accept that all social-security systems must have a measure of conditionality, the punishments imposed by the government regime are disproportionately harsh.
His zealous concern for the well-being of the N.B.A. is admirable, but the excessive player punishments imposed reflect misdirected outrage.
The House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would reduce the disparities between mandatory federal sentences for crack and powder cocaine violations, a step toward ending what legal experts say have been unfairly harsh punishments imposed mainly on blacks.
And the puny punishments imposed may be as likely to encourage law-breaking as to deter it.On June 8th Japan's Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) proposed its first fine for insider-trading against a foreign firm, First New York Securities.
Asked whether some banks were "too big to jail", she said that the size of an institution was no bar to prosecution, but she acknowledged it can have an impact on the punishments imposed on errant firms.
