Sentence examples for stringent sentencing from inspiring English sources
The phrase "stringent sentencing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about legal penalties that are strict or severe in nature. Example: "The new law introduced stringent sentencing for repeat offenders to deter crime in the community."
As those hoping to change the stringent sentencing laws have gained political will from the decline in violent crime, the other side, too, has used the decline to assert its case.
He also had the misfortune to commit his crime in 2001, as the federal government was adopting new and more stringent sentencing guidelines, and to be caught after they took effect.
Of those, 725 have been charged and some are being handed stringent sentences by courts that run 24 hours in some areas.
The government's former terror adviser has intervened in the row over the sentencing of people who took part in last week's riots, accusing ministers of appearing to "steer" the courts into handing down the more stringent sentences.
Claudio's lines, spoken on his way to prison under the newly stringent sentence of death for fornication, are from a speech oddly and notoriously difficult - oddly, because Claudio is a simple man.
Gen. Barry McCaffrey, the head of the White House drug control policy office, has criticized the stringent mandatory sentences, as have New York's Roman Catholic bishops.
The Senate proposal does not directly address the efforts by the governor and the Democratic leadership of the Assembly to ease the state's stringent mandatory drug-sentencing laws.
The initiative directed prosecutors filing drug charges not to include information — such as the quantity of drugs seized — which might trigger stringent mandatory minimum sentences when bringing charges against nonviolent individuals not linked to gangs or large-scale drug organizations.
Since 2002, the number of prisoners aged 60 and older has more than doubled – a direct result of increased sentence lengths, stringent licence conditions and the recent surge in historic sex abuse cases.
Since 2002, the number of prisoners aged 60 and older has more than doubled a direct result of increased sentence lengths, stringent license conditions and the recent surge in historic sex abuse cases.
Arkansas, for example, has one of the nation's most stringent laws, according to the Sentencing Project, a research and advocacy organization.
