Sentences with 'penalties'
Example sentences and phrases with the word penalties and other words derived from it.
• « This time, the Romans enacted harsh penalties for disloyalty among the Greek cities, completely destroying the wealthy city of Corinth and slaughtering or enslaving tens of thousands of Greeks for siding with Rome. »
• « The Treaty of Versailles that ended the First World War imposed harsh penalties on Germany, returning Alsace and Lorraine to France and imposing massive reparations on the defeated country. »
• « The Sedition Act imposed harsh penalties - up to five years in prison and a hefty $5,000 fine in 1790 - on those convicted of speaking or writing "scandalously or maliciously" against the US government. Twenty-five men, all Democratic-Republicans, were charged under the law, and ten were convicted. »