Sentence examples for punitive penalties from inspiring English sources

Influenced by the punitive penalties and strong rhetoric in favour of two-parent households, some American families may have felt coerced into reporting living patterns to match the desired two-family model.

The jury did not, however, impose punitive penalties against the hospital.

But the nature of competition law demands action in the meanwhile, given the threat of punitive penalties for any continued breach.

These goals should not have punitive penalties, but should be sufficiently demanding and even experimental that you expect a certain number of failures.

Sponsors of the bill insist that insurers should be exposed to unlimited damages for pain and suffering, as well as punitive penalties of as much as $5 million.

These included absence of flexible payment mechanisms, differentiated contribution amounts and punitive penalties for those who do not pay their contributions on time.

Prosecutors included language in the agreement that clearly defined the damages as a punitive penalty.

Without those acquisitions, JPMorgan would probably have been looking at a fine of $2.2 billion, or perhaps less, since the government has sought an extra-large punitive penalty given the magnitude of the problems.

One bad contract has years more to run: "But we can't afford £40m to buy it out, as there are punitive penalty clauses". Again, they talk of private contract inflexibility and refusal to invest.

The main contract for the £212m titan jail being built at Wrexham, north Wales, includes punitive penalty clauses that will make it very expensive for any incoming government to cancel the category-C prison, which will hold prisoners from north Wales and north-west England.

Whatever the case might have been, there is a riveting conclusion that ganders coldly in our eyes: there is an urgent need to set a death-penalty, or a similarly punitive penalty, for men or women who murder under the name of honor.