Sentence examples for spared penalties from inspiring English sources

The two officers who went free were spared penalties of up to 10 years in prison on conspiracy charges.

But if they eventually gave in or lost in court, they'd be spared penalties (equal to 20% to 40% of extra tax due) as a reward.

Employers who don't provide health insurance will be spared penalties of up to $3,000 per worker until 2015, a one-year delay of a major component of President Barack Obama's health care reform law, the Treasury Department announced Tuesday.

The Republicans who insisted on the provision did not only want religious organizations and affiliated groups to be protected from lawsuits if they refused to provide their buildings or services for same-sex marriage ceremonies, they also wanted them to be spared any penalties by state government.

At least we were spared a penalty shoot-out involving three kickers apiece from either side.

Fortunately for them, Besiktas did not have the wit to take advantage and the most important refereeing decision actually came earlier in the match, just a few minutes before Sánchez's goal, when Arsenal were spared a penalty that could have changed the entire complexion of the night.

By contrast, in the federal program taxpayers have to pay not just interest but some penalties; they are spared the stiffest penalties that could have resulted in the confiscation of all their offshore money.

In 1999 a Tax Court judge agreed with Vitale that he had a profit motive and spared him any penalties.

He has been serving a life sentence in a Louisiana prison, spared the death penalty by a Supreme Court ruling that capital punishment for the rape of a child, unaccompanied by murder, violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

Later, lawyers asked that Mr. Ross be spared the death penalty because lethal injections amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.

And he was spared the death penalty.