Sentence examples for should be punishable from inspiring English sources

Failure to disclose such interests should be punishable.

One side argued that no consensual act should be punishable by either law or social sanction.

Or, at the very least, it says illegal entry should be punishable by two years in federal prison, not 20.

To venerate anything other than the one God was shirk, or polytheism, a crime Wahhabis believed should be punishable by death.

At most, the parents said, the protesters' behavior amounted to loitering, which should be punishable by detention or a meeting with a guidance counselor.

Or that to say that homosexuality is "no problem" but actually doing anything homosexual should be punishable by law is like saying that freedom of conscience includes the right to think heretical thoughts but not to utter them.

Nobody is arguing that infringement should not be punishable, only that the damage resulting from it should be impartially assessed and the penalties should be proportionate to the damage.

• All proven "racist words or acts" should lead to disciplinary proceedings, and such behaviour should normally be punishable by dismissal.

The European Union's Framework decision on Racism and Xenophobia states that denying or grossly trivializing "crimes of genocide" should be made "punishable in all EU Member States".

Rubio has already named 23 people who could be punishable but the list could and should grow larger.

"Acts which a person knew or should have known to have a significant adverse effect on society at large shall be punishable by law," it says.