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Example sentences for: punishable
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Buying a single bottle of wine from out-of-state is a third-degree felony in Kentucky, Georgia, and Florida and is punishable with fines of up to $2,000 and jail time.
Maître-Créche, on the other hand, was charged with a felony, punishable by a maximum prison sentence of 25 years, because the term was not used in “the ephemeral, innocuous context of speech,” according to the prosecutor, but in the “semi-non-ephemeral, culturally reverberative context of advertising.”
The United States inherited English common law, which made adultery, as well as fornication (sex between unmarried people) and sodomy (oral and anal sex), punishable crimes.
An example highlighted by the paper is the bill currently advancing in the Florida legislature that would make it a crime punishable by up to five years in jail and a $5,000 fine for any local government official or employee to file suit against gunmakers--consequences rarely suffered, it should be noted, by those convicted of illegal gun possession or discharge.
This all occurred in front of the shogun, which meant serious trouble, because displaying a weapon in the shogun's presence was punishable by death.
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