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Example sentences for: penal

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Penal laws regulating the possession and distribution of marijuana are as difficult to justify as school policies expelling eighth graders for distributing Midol.
Stating that ...many words and usages exiled from East Germany now found a place as free citizens in the world of linguistic glasnost..., he cites only one, Republikflucht , which is a true East German neologism, i.e., a new crime--leaving the country-- which didn't exist before and has since been eliminated from the penal code.
"The Laogai Archipelago" describes China's massive, awful penal system, which imprisons between 6 million and 8 million people and favors such barbarous practices as slave labor, torture, and organ-harvesting from executed convicts.
.the lecture was heavy with the importance of dream state, pulse and heart rate, vaginal tumescence and temperature change, rapid eye movement and the size and frequency of penal erection.”
Replacing such a term by a foreign equivalent is a penal offense, and may cost the offender anything from $90 to $200.