| She said it wouldn't be appropriate to mete out a long custodial sentence even if the suspect is convicted. |
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| The King is at first inclined to agree with this principle and to mete out to the sororicide the punishment he deserves. |
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| We must overcome the dictatorship in these countries that mete out such inhumane treatment to their own people. |
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| A commitment to fairness and justice does not require one to mete out identical treatment. |
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| That exposes it to the sort of abuse Britons often mete out to the institutions closest to them. |
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| It would be a move in the right direction if judges were permitted to mete out a sentence that was more reflective of the public sentiment. |
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| He must be henceforth treated like a moral leper to satisfy our conviction that endless ongoing punishment without mercy is ours to mete out to him forever. |
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| Navarro worries that may mean the politically powerful flores family will mete out their own brand of justice. |
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| Womankind has long known that style can be used as a weapon to mete out psychological torment. |
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| I am glad to say that the courts in my country are independent and still able to mete out justice, even if it is posthumous. |
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| But a commitment to fairness and justice does not require the government or private citizens to mete out identical treatment. |
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| The System Security Force is there to keep order, feared and untouchable because of the violence they mete out to anyone who crosses them. |
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| In the final analysis Bill C-15B would give judges the ability to mete out greater sentences and come down hard on those who are convicted. |
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| Wronged by a local baron and with his wife murdered, Mikkelsen's 16th-century horse trader sets about raising an army to mete out revenge. |
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| Nothing, though, can justify the brutal treatment they mete out to religious and ethnic minorities in Tibet as well as in Inner Mongolia and in Eastern Turkestan. |
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| Like batteries, capacitors store and mete out electricity. |
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| We need a weight watcher willing to mete out some stricter discipline. |
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| Federal prosecutors serve as the last line of defence against the social chaos that is created by these gangs and the havoc they would otherwise seek to mete out in society. |
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| There are increased penalties and an increased ability for judges to mete out sentences that are more reflective of society's abhorrence of this type of offence. |
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| There is no domestic enforcement regime available under either Canadian criminal law or Canadian civil law that could mete out that type of remedy and do so in a period of nine months, appeal included. |
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| We can simply have a law clerk mete out the sentences. |
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| Maximum sentences are meaningless if the courts do not impose them, choosing instead to mete out little more than a slap on the wrist with time served in the community. |
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| In the fight against terrorism, the international community has no other choice but to work together and to adopt policies aimed at combating this scourge in order to mete out effective justice. |
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| There is available in the criminal justice system today very clearly the option for a sentencing judge to mete out a sentence that will allow for a conditional or absolute discharge. |
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| Originally, the court had the power to mete out sentences, with excommunication as its most severe penalty. |
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