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Meanings of penal in English
Synonyms
Examples for "punishable"
Examples for "punishable"
1
Some environmental experts say carrying plastic bags should be punishable by law.
2
Apostasy is punishable by death in many countries' interpretation of Islamic law.
3
Working with a foreign group is treason, which is punishable by execution.
4
Such are treason, which is punishable by hanging; by drowning in sea.
5
Past due rent in a borough was punishable by payment of 10s.
Usage of penal in English
1
They had also cited health and safety concerns at far-flung penal colonies.
2
He said the men would serve their sentences in a penal colony.
3
His new penal code also punishes Muslims caught drinking alcohol with whipping.
4
But are human rights compatible with sharia law or Islamic penal codes?
5
Among the special reforms was reorganization of the penal & legal codes.
6
The system became a model of penal reform and was widely copied.
7
In respect to the penal system, I have express the same thing.
8
Such are the causes, traced in the incessant agitation of penal transportation.
9
But the penal colony struggled to survive as food supplies quickly dwindled.
10
Overview: You're building a fortress on a remote island, a penal colony.
11
Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, cannon, penal statutes.
12
In 1852 the French Government established a penal colony on these islands.
13
While the penal code was in force Irish priests were educated abroad.
14
In 2007 the Bank was providing liquidity but at a penal rate.
15
Forever we will think of him as someone in the penal system.
16
They do not escape the almost inevitable consequence of making irreligion penal.
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Penal through the time
Penal across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common