Sentence examples for strict penal from inspiring English sources

The strict penal policies were intended to reduce crime, but they have led to a historic, if largely unrecognized, shift in priorities away from policing.

Sentsov is incarcerated at a strict penal colony in the Siberian region of Yakutia, about 3,500 miles from Ukraine's capital, Kiev.

Beginning in 1990, the sultan encouraged the people to adhere more rigidly to traditional Islamic principles, and in 2014, Brunei made international headlines for its adoption of the strict penal code of Syariah (Shari'ah) law for criminal cases.

With no guidance on how to proceed in complicated cases or a clear definition of what constitutes an abortion, they say, the country's strict penal code has left itself open to interpretation.

Therefore, it created a strict penal system to call to account anyone who partially or totally mishandles or damages water projects irrespective of the cause of damage.

"Brunei continues to move forward with full implementation of a strict penal code mandating the stoning to death of LGBT citizens; similarly, Malaysia has not taken action to end its persecution of LGBT individuals," the letter reads.

The opposition, known as Venstre ("Left"), considered the measures unconstitutional; Estrup counteracted public unrest with police action and a stricter penal code.

And while researchers attributed about a quarter of the decline in the rest of America to the stricter penal policies, that explanation did not apply to a city that was locking up fewer people.

1555 Heanor, England May 3, 1606 London, England Henry Garnett, (born 1555, Heanor, Derbyshire, Eng. died May 3, 1606, London) English Jesuit superior implicated in the Gunpowder Plot, an abortive conspiracy to destroy the Protestant king James I of England and Parliament while in assembly on Nov. 5, 1605, in retaliation for stricter penal laws against Roman Catholics.

This month, Brunei has started to implement a strict new penal code that will allow death by stoning as a punishment for homosexuality and adultery.

(Reuters) AFRICA NIGERIA: NORTHERN ALERT -- Security forces have been sent to the northern state of Kano, which today will become the third state to institute Shariah, the strict Islamic penal and social code.