Sentence examples for state punishable from inspiring English sources

Later in 2005, the Turkish government made all such "insults" to the state punishable with jail.

He has been detained for three weeks on allegations that he published false information prejudicial to the state, punishable by 20 years in prison.

The law, which President Benigno S. Aquino III signed late Friday, makes the "arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty committed by agents of the state" punishable by life in prison.

A new law pushed through Parliament late last year makes organizing a public protest — or making statements that discredit the state — punishable by three to five years in prison.

Israel's Knesset plenum has also given initial approval to a bill that would make it a crime to publicly deny Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, punishable by up to a year in prison.

Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder and CEO of the yogurt company Chobani, said that the if the bill passed it "would limit transparency and make some instances of exposing the mistreatment of animals in the state punishable by imprisonment.

Gov. Gary Locke and Attorney General Christine Gregoire announced proposals for security legislation that would expand wiretapping authority and make terrorism a state felony punishable by the death.

"In a constitutional democracy we all have to stick to the rules, and one of these rules is that offending foreign heads of state is punishable by law," the CDU general secretary, Peter Tauber, said in an interview with the NTV news channel.

The agency alleged that Perry and its director, Gary Deak, failed to file death certificates for at least some of those bodies; and stored them without obtaining the families' permission; and improperly held them for months — long enough to constitute a state felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

When they got to jail, they found out they were being charged with a "terrorism hoax," a state felony punishable by up to ten years in prison.

Gov. George Pataki on Thursday proposed a new bill to make terrorism a state crime punishable by death, saying state prosecutors need the same tools their federal counterparts now have.