Sentence examples for serious sentences from inspiring English sources

"To get some senior law enforcement officials held accountable with fairly serious sentences — it's really historic".

While acknowledging the terms were well below what prosecutors sought, Ms. Valle said: "These are serious sentences that effectively dismantle a North American support cell for terrorists.

"It was largely due to Markelov that these people received serious sentences," said Galina V. Kozhevnikova, a deputy director at the Sova Center, which tracks Russian nationalist groups.

And his stars are obviously more cooperative with him: at a Los Angeles press event publicising the new Ocean's, some of the only serious sentences were uttered by the actors in praise of their accomplished director.

And while rape is indeed rape, and Mr Clarke was silly to dispute it yesterday, it is also right that there is a scale of serious sentences, with aggravating and mitigating factors, which are properly applied to different cases, in rape as in other crimes.

But it wasn't enough to help those, like Robert Shipp, with the most serious sentences.

It is the most serious crime to commit, and it deserves the most serious sentence".

"It is an extraordinary crime that requires an equally serious sentence," a prosecutor, Glen Kopp, told the judge.

He has been provisionally suspended by Fifa since his arrest but the adjudicatory chamber of its ethics committee has now handed him its most serious sentence.

The former minister of commerce, Rachid Mohamed Rachid, once considered a force for reform and clean government, was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison and a $230 million fine for illegally helping Mr. Ezz obtain permits for his steel empire — a more serious sentence perhaps reflecting the prominent public role he was convicted of abusing.

Professor Tohti's lawyer, Li Fangping, has told the BBC that he believes his client, whom he hasn't been allowed to see since his detention five months ago, may already have been put on trial by the Chinese authorities in secret and handed "a very serious" sentence.