The performance of religious rites by women alone, when men are required under heavy penalties to absent themselves, is, indeed, not very uncommon in savage life.
Conclusions without premises, ends without means; and opinions adopted without any of the previous and inevitable pains and penalties attendant upon the acquirement of human knowledge, or, in other words, without experience!
The purposes of an impeachment lie wholly beyond the penalties of the statute or the customary law.
That office is to apply to the subjects of the government the penalties inflicted by the legislative power for disobedience of the laws.
These invading aliens had not the least disposition to receive commands as Kansas militia; they invoked that name only as a cloak to shield them from the legal penalties due their real character as organized banditti.
She had the penalties of her temperament shadowing her footsteps always, dimming the radiance which broke forth for long periods, and made her so rare and wonderful a figure in her world.
Her own misery now at last enabled her to see, however dimly, the woes of others; and it did not matter whether the woes were penalties or undeserved chastisement; the new-born pity of her soul made no choice and sought no difference.
Our sense of justice and goodness so far as God himself is concerned, is vastly more shocked by the proper penalties of sin being placed upon the innocent than had they been left upon the guilty, where they belong.
The truth is, literal substitution of moral penalties is a thing absolutely impossible!
The Penal Code fixed the penalties in such cases and gave no option to the judge to impose lesser ones.
You are responsible under the severest penalties for the performance of this.
What poor excuses would therefore be accidental or slight injuries, just penalties for our wrongdoings and imaginary grievances!
The State alone has the right to inflict penalties and avenge wrongs; to turn this right over to every individual would be destructive of society.
To the active drama of conspiracy, to the dangers which the brothers had incurred, to the pain and penalties of their exile, was now succeeding another sort of drama, of which she had never thought.
A penal statute is virtually annulled if the penalties which it imposes are regularly remitted as often as they are incurred.
They interdicted under heavy penalties the use of the Book of Common Prayer, not only in churches, but even in private houses.
What, he often said, could be more unjust, than to visit speculations with penalties which ought to be reserved for acts?
A law was in force which imposed severe penalties on every person who refused to take the oath of supremacy when required to do so.
The messengers examined by the Commons were not on oath, and might therefore have related mere fictions without incurring the penalties of perjury.
The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remitpenalties without limit.
The Justices of the Peace were authorised to inflict severepenalties for breaches of discipline.
He says this is a bill of pains and penalties because certain persons can not hold office; and he even seems to think it would be preferable, in some instances, to be hanged.
When hung, they will cease to suffer the pains and penaltiesof being kept out of office.
So, too, they are made subject to the same punishment, pains, and penalties in common with white citizens, and to none others.
They thereby incurred certain penalties under the laws and Constitution of the United States.
The individuals in the States who were in rebellion, it seems to me, were the only parties who, under the Constitution and laws of the United States, could incur the penalties of treason.
It is because it reads in the first section that any person who, 'under color of law,' shall commit these offenses, shall be subject to the penalties of the law.
Nothing could be done in Georgia under "color of law," which would subject officers to the penalties provided by the Civil Rights Bill.
One of his baillis even threatened, in the church of Moissac, seizure of person and property for all who should submit to the penalties imposed by the inquisitors, as they were not authorized by the count to administer justice.
All such acts of misplaced mercy were pronounced void, and Zoen was ordered to reimpose all such penalties without appeal.
Tuscany to the Roman Church, and especially to him before his elevation, relieved them individually and universally from the penalties for heresy, including all disabilities decreed by his predecessors and by Frederic II.
All Christian princes were summoned to lend their aid in the good work without delay if they wished to escape divine vengeance and the penalties provided by law.
He ought to have been imprisoned for life, but the German spiritual courts, as usual, were unversed in the penalties for heresy, and he was allowed to go free, when he secretly made his way to Speier.
Cambacérès votes: "Louis has incurred the penalties established in the penal code against conspirators.
Vaudeuil and obliged him to return the sum of 300 francs, for penalties pretended to have been paid by them.
Tis a hard duty to perform, even under the obligations and penalties of the law;--otherwise, it were accursed!
A happy ménage is like a well-ordered state, a foretaste of the joys and peace of Heaven; while a discontented household and a turbulent community may be likened at once to the penalties and the pains of hell!
These doubts are the penalties that friendship pays to separation.
There are that call evil good, iniquity good, and that of professors too: this is that to be departed from, and these are they that are exhorted to forsake it upon the pains and penalties before threatened.
To prevent these meetings, severe and almost arbitrary penalties were enforced, a considerable part of which went to the informers--men of debauched habits and profligate principles.
Many were then kept back, to their serious injury or ruin, by fear of enormous penalties or imprisonment, but NOW, what keeps you back, O Christian.
Made under the law--that is, put himself into the room of sinners, into the condition of sinners; made himself subject to the same pains and penalties we were obnoxious to.
Ruinous penalties were inflicted, not only on every minister, but upon every hearer, who met to worship God in private houses or in the fields and woods.
In a word, this is it that hath more awe upon my conscience than all the laws of men, with all the penalties they inflict.
Why, by fulfilling my law, and by answering the penalties thereof.
But abolitionists have no thought of exempting men from the penalties of common law, if they transgress the law; we only desire that all men shall be equally subjected to the law, and equally protected by it.
I must think there is some misunderstanding; for I have made no high claims about capacity for self-rule, as if laws and penalties were to be done away.
These, O ye loving hearts, are the penalties of love!
But, Mr. Tudor had been convicted, and he must incur the penalties of his fault.
When men such as Alaric Tudor stoop to dishonesty, the penalties of detection are not confined to their own hearthstone.
One of these penalties must, undoubtedly, be his banishment from this club.
So she sat silent in the corner of her sofa feigning to be asleep, but pondering in her mind what sort of penalties were the penalties of imprisonment, how dreadful, how endurable, or how unendurable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penalties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
