| It is said therefore that the power to punish or to impose consequences which are penal or punitive is an exclusively judicial one. |
| It's hard to attract senior nurses to mental health because they miss out on penal rates. |
| The new rules will remove outdated references to penal servitude and imprisonment with hard labour. |
| Civil law and commercial law derive from the French, while the penal code is influenced by the British model. |
| He had a bit of trouble with the largely Evangelical audience who didn't like his critique of the penal substitutionary theory of the Atonement. |
| Conservative critics bemoaned the pernicious consequences of softhearted penal policies and demanded stricter control of ticket-of-leave men. |
