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Example sentences for: punishable
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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.
This one makes stalking across interstate lines or on U.S. government property a federal offense, punishable by five years to life in prison.
What you call "noncooperation" with the IRS is called "tax evasion" by the feds and is punishable by jail time.
We felt that, ideally, the AIDSS accurately described the distribution of diseases in the population by person, time, and place because disease reporting was mandatory and failure to report was a punishable offense.