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How to use the word penalties in a Sentence?

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However accurate or inaccurate the agency’s numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.

James Bovard

added by Normando
12 months ago

The hostile climate many states are creating for the health care field by enacting criminal and other penalties for abortion care is an outcome whose reverberations we are only just beginning to see.

Kelly Baden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They claim that Germany is still an occupied country under US control, or a business enterprise registered in Frankfurt, from such fictitious ‘facts’ they derive both a ‘right’ not to pay taxes and penalties, or to establish ‘provisional political authorities.’.

Werner Patzelt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A penalty shootout is a very uncomfortable event, it’s painful because the pressure is so intense, and of course, the consequences of failing are so dire. Penalties, for me, are wonderful!

Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We think the public has a right to enforce the penalties it wants, it chooses for crimes, and the public has been supportive of capital punishment for the worst murderers pretty much throughout the history of the country.

Michael Rushford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a good example of where the federal government can lead and can help with keep our country safe and content can help protect the public by bringing to bear a federal statute where the penalties for that same conduct are relatively light on the state side.

Randy Grossman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The fact that businesses are still dealing with COVID-19 related penalties and fines is infuriating, livelihoods are on the line. In the previous administration, we saw our government shut down businesses, close our schools, and separate us from each other. While we can’t undo the damage done during the Northam administration, we are taking action going forward to end COVID-era draconian overreach.

Glenn Youngkin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Right now,government officials across the country—including the Bidenadministration—argue in court that individuals and religious organizations who love and work with people from all walks of life should face civil and criminal penalties if they don’t abandon their beliefs on this issue, make no mistake, this bill will be used by officials and activists to punish and ruin those who do not share the government’s view on marriage.

Kristen Waggoner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We need to be talking about overcharging that results in something other than simple possession, so those cases that we hear about where somebody splits a '20 rock' and all of a sudden – with their friend in order to pay for their crack – and as a result ends up with a sale charge, which of course is a huge enhancement and carries with it a wider realm of penalties, so, we need to be thinking about overcharging.

But Gunnigle

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The penalties are remarkably low.

Alexander Colvin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Employers have the upper hand, it's very hard to prove that's the reason they closed. And the penalties are not even a slap on the wrist, it's the wagging of a finger.

Todd Vachon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She has two young kids who she hasn't seen in years now, it's all well and good to talk at a high level about political tensions and the ramifications thereof, but in terms of its spillover, there are some very real consequences and heavy penalties that normal people have to pay.

Elena Collinson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If a pass does not cross the line of scrimmage, there can be no pass interference or ineligible player downfield penalties.

The USFL

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With this legislation, we can help fight assault and harassment in maritime transportation through penalties for perpetrators, new requirements for owners, expanded legal recourse for victims, and a myriad of policies to prevent sexual assault and harassment in the first place.

Peter DeFazio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We must pass legislation requiring background checks on all gun sales. We must pass legislation to make gun trafficking a federal crime. We must increase penalties for those directly involved in moving guns across state lines, and the organizers of gun trafficking rings. We must increase penalties for those making straw purchases, or buying firearms from someone legally prohibited from doing so. And we must also mobilize the DOJ against the proliferation of ghost guns.

Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s unlikely that we will be able to, in the near future, investigate or prosecute these human rights violation cases from North Korea, having these civil lawsuits and being able to actually have these punitive damages or other financial penalties imposed on North Korea from a human rights angle, I think that’s pretty important.

Ethan Hee-Seok Shin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Expected those penalties. Just to show you what I read right before we kick off, what I read was ‘major concern: this group calls a lot of ticky-tack, they call a lot of penalties, and that's gonna be a concern for us today,’.

Tom Pennington/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That’s been the story, that’s been the story of the year, it’s just us shooting ourselves in the foot. Once we eliminate those penalties, sacks on my part where I should just throw the ball away, throw the ball down to the ground — once we eliminate those, we start seeing more points come up on the board and have more success. I thought our whole defense played great tonight and put us in a position to win.

Justin Fields

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I call it ‘throw-up ball.’ This will arguably be the most-watched game other than the Super Bowl. I hate that it got down to just throwing the ball up and getting the penalties to get you big plays.

Jerry Jones

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Well, it is embarrassing, the thing we say is, to win a football game, you've got to keep from losing. We felt like we lost the football game yesterday because we didn't do the things that we need to do to play winning football, and that's protect the football, not have penalties that's going to keep drives from sustaining, and we did those things yesterday frequently.

Desmond King

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The penalties in the federal system need to be much more conveyed to people to discourage this idea that this is a harmless, mostly clerical administrative violation of the federal system, it is blood money. You are getting the guns... to someone that will harm someone.

Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The main thing that we had to come do is handle the environment, i think we did part of the game, but we just had too many penalties. You can’t win games like that.

Jacquez Jones

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Just undisciplined football, the turnovers, beating ourselves. ... That doesn’t help the defense at all. That’s really what it comes down to — turnovers, penalties, beating yourself.

Chigoziem Okonkwo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In some cases, companies are offering financial penalties for not making progress as well as financial incentives for making progress. Some are sharing the results publicly outside the organization, so all of this helps demonstrate that it is important and holds individuals accountable.

Ishanaa Rambachan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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