Sentence examples for substantial punishment from inspiring English sources

"Brener's conduct warrants substantial punishment," Daniel L. Stein, an assistant United States attorney, told the judge in court papers.

A substantial punishment of Orpik would extend into Pittsburgh's first-round playoff series with the Philadelphia Flyers.

The world, he said, had to understand that a criminal could not carry out so horrendous a scheme "without receiving substantial punishment".

"If the league doesn't come down with a substantial punishment, I think we're setting ourselves up for a huge problem down the line," he said.

Last week, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called on federal Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein to impose "substantial punishment" on the 18 defendants indicted in what the mayor called "the largest and most financially damaging corruption scheme" in municipal history.

MOSCOW — Two human rights campaigners said Thursday that despite personal intervention by President Dmitri A. Medvedev, officials responsible for the death of a lawyer last year in pretrial detention were facing no substantial punishment.

But experts say the occupiers lack any legal arguments that would shield them in court and that if charges were brought, the Bundy bunch could face substantial punishments.

The hacking of newswires to trade in advance notice of the disclosure of corporate developments in "a sophisticated and brazen scheme" resulting in more than $100 million in profits was the kind of market abuse that almost demands that the Justice Department seek substantial punishments.

Ferguson's estimated personal worth has been put at around £22m so it would take a substantial level of punishment to change the perspective of the 68-year-old Scot who is understood to want an apology for the BBC Three programme broadcast in 2004, which made allegations about his son, Jason, taking advantage of his father's influence while working as a football agent.

The question that divided the justices on Monday was whether the current discretionary guidelines retained enough force to subject defendants to a substantial risk of additional punishment and thus violate the Constitution's ex post facto clause, which prohibits enhanced retroactive punishment.

In 1865 he won a great personal triumph in convincing parliament to put substantial limitations on capital punishment.