Sentence examples for stringent punishments from inspiring English sources

In this atmosphere, the call for stringent punishments will grow louder.

Monday's amputations — the latest in a series of stringent punishments carried out by the Islamists, including a stoning, whippings and amputations — drew swift condemnation from local officials.

Even with more stringent punishments, however, track and field and other Olympic sports will face serious questions of credibility next August at the Summer Games in Athens, many acknowledge.

Older stringent punishments "that are out of line with sentences imposed under today's laws erode people's confidence in our criminal justice system," Cole said.

People compelled by immiseration and displacement to seek a better life by risking the one they have in the process are not going to be dissuaded by border walls and stringent punishments.

The law was further amended in 2003 to include preconception sex-selection techniques, regulation of sale of ultrasound machines, and more stringent punishments for breaking the law.

Those who push for ever more stringent punishment for child killers must be pleased with the results in Florida.

The couple were reportedly advised to admit the sedition charges in an attempt to win a less stringent punishment.

Edward A. Stolzenberg, the medical center's president, said that one nurse had resigned and that the hospital was seeking "stringent punishment, including dismissals" for the others.

John Deutch, the former C.I.A. director, and Alberto Gonzales, the former Attorney General, both faced much less stringent punishment after taking classified documents home without authorization.

A young nationalist was sentenced to life in prison, Russia's most stringent punishment, on Friday for fatally shooting a human rights lawyer and a young journalist two years ago on a busy street near the Kremlin.