extreme penalty

Example Sentences

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“While this is an extreme penalty, the Condominium submits that it is proportional to Villi’s offence. He has proven himself to be ungovernable.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2022

“This is a lady with a compulsion. Hopefully, she understands the extreme penalty she’d be under if this does reoccur. You get cynical after a while.”

From Washington Times • Jan. 16, 2020

“But even if they had been fully accurate they would be completely inadequate to justify the extreme penalty of my termination after 20 years’ service to BLM,” he wrote in his complaint.

From Washington Times • Oct. 21, 2019

By squaring the deviations we are placing an extreme penalty on observations that are far from the mean; these observations get greater weight in the calculations of the variance.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

The African slave trade was made piracy by act of Congress in 1808, though the extreme penalty was not inflicted for sixty years, and a considerable traffic still went on.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring