Sentence examples for raising penalties from inspiring English sources

The officials are also considering raising penalties for marijuana traffickers and producers.

Because judges tend to have a strong sense of the relative seriousness of offences, and sentence according to this framework, the act had the effect of raising penalties all round.

Senator Bruno and his Republican colleagues, however, have argued for two years that raising penalties for people who repeatedly violate drunken-driving laws is just as important in the fight to cut down on fatalities.

Mr. Pataki has agreed orally with the Assembly leaders to lower sentences for most drug crimes, but only in return for raising penalties for drug dealers who use a gun, employ children or run a criminal organization.

It is also considering barring retailers from openly displaying cigarettes and other tobacco products; raising penalties when retailers are found in possession of illegal cigarettes; setting a minimum price of $10.50 per pack of cigarettes or little cigars and barring discounts of tobacco products.

As well as tightening up the enforcement of workers rights, the government said it will be raising fines for employers that show "malice, spite or gross oversight", as well as considering raising penalties for employers who have previously lost similar cases.

It expanded the definition of a sex offender and raised penalties for violating registry requirements.

The bill would also raise penalties for failing to report defects.

A month ago, the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, introduced a Republican package of bills to raise penalties for insurance fraud.

Eric H. Jaso, a Justice Department official who is a nonvoting member of the commission, said that the commission had the authority from Congress to "raise penalties across the board".

Even so, experts said that the efforts by the European Commission to raise penalties to ever-higher levels showed the limits of their enforcement abilities.