Sentence examples for unduly punitive from inspiring English sources
Many legal experts criticize sentencing guidelines as unduly punitive.
To pursue Mr. Bakaly under these circumstances on charges that he lied to investigators seems unduly punitive and extreme.
The International Olympic Committee rule that would have prohibited him and other formerly suspended athletes from competing at the London Games was struck down as unduly punitive.
If a civil statute was administered in an unduly punitive way, these two justices said, the remedy was not to invoke the double jeopardy clause but to sue the administrators in state court.
If decades of unduly punitive sentencing policies have shown us anything, it is that thousands of people like the Hammonds -- ordinary Americans who may have broken the law, but are far from hardened criminals -- bear the brunt of Congress' folly.
But if it happens in ways "that are not seen as discriminating and punitive to creditors, Uruguay will not be unduly penalised," hopes Ernesto Talvi of CERES, an economic research institute in Montevideo.
It could be suggested that even without the threat of large presumed and punitive damages awards, press defendants' communication will be unduly chilled by having to pay for the actual damages caused to those they defame.
Most of the money under this model goes to CEC, not to the retailer or injured party, she said, adding that for those with money, it is not punitive enough, and for those without, it is unduly harsh.
