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
It is no longer necessary to inflict the extreme penalty.
From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
