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Example sentences for: penalty

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For one thing, more married couples enjoy a marriage bonus than suffer a marriage penalty (51 percent to 42 percent).
The oft-complained-of "marriage penalty " only exists in the latter case.
The editorial inside described Tucker as "a manifestly sincere penitent," and said, "One couldn't imagine a better argument against the death penalty than Karla Tucker, or a better demonstration of the absurdity of a social vengeance that is taken after 14 years not against the author of the crime, but against this other person the criminal has become in the meantime."
A country that doesn't respect the rights of defendants and which practices the death penalty doesn't have the right to be part of Europe."
So strong is the pressure to do something about the so-called "marriage penalty" that the stalled tobacco bill gained momentum in the Senate this week from the inclusion of a provision to give an income tax break to low and moderate income married couples.