severity of the law

"Get them even from under the earth and try them with all severity of the law," she told her police chief.

Many legal observers believe the severity of the law helps to prevent white-collar crime.

"that he was deterring persons from the commission of crime, by the severity of the law".

Another was to relax the severity of the law towards the individual debtor who might be incompetent but not dishonest.

On the one hand, after 70 years of Soviet rule, we are used to compensating for the severity of the law by disobeying it.

"The attempt to pour dirt on Arabs will be dealt with with the full severity of the law.

Working with Zhao Yu, Zhang Tang increased the severity of the laws to prevent officials abusing their power.

Whether this is because the English are basically law abiding or whether it was due to the severity of the law was a question to Cranston.

The authorities in many cities performed this sort of theater of the last-minute pardon as a way to dramatize both the severity of the law and its mercy.

Given the severity of the laws, and the enthusiasm this kingdom appeared to have for enforcing them, he doubted even the gods would be able to do much on their behalf.

The new decrees reduced the severity of the laws of King Ladislaus I, but they also contained provisions against the Jews and the Muslims ('böszörmény').

Owing to the severity of the laws there was no primate resident in Ireland for twenty-three years after the flight of Primate Maguire, in 1691.

Finally, "in trivial cases indeed Judges ought to be more inclined to mildness, but in more serious cases to follow the severity of the laws with a certain moderation of generosity."

This flagitious attack upon the dignity of the knight so incensed him, that he applied to a lawyer at Warwick to put the severity of the laws in force against the rhyming deer-stalker.

Whereupon the judge, to prove that the severity of the law may be tempered by compassion, gave permission for her children to accompany her to Australia so as to be under her fostering care.

Former members of the military were warned: "Anyone who fails to surrender his arms or who continues carrying them without having the appropriate new permit will be prosecuted with the utmost severity of the law.

The Clave flourished in part because the old severity of the Law, the stringency which matched the price paid to the beauty of the thing purchased, had been weakened; and they did not know their peril.

An advertisement quickly met my eye, purporting, that 'Maria Venables had, without any assignable cause, absconded from her husband; and any person harbouring her, was menaced with the utmost severity of the law.'

The willingness of most decisionmakers to enforce can initiate a self-reinforcing wave of condemnation, thereby allowing lawmakers to increase the severity of the law in the future without prompting resistance from most decisionmakers.

The level of severity of the law was "tempered" by this mercy, specifically for the poor; it was thought that by showing paternal love in formation of law, the legislator gained the love of citizen.

The event was made an occasion of riotous rejoicing by the king and the principal chiefs, who easily secured a display of enthusiasm from the inferior orders, by remitting for a time the accustomed severity of the laws.

The measures put in force shortly after Elizabeth's accession became much harsher after the Rising of the North (1569) and the Babington Plot in particular, the utmost severity of the law was enforced against seminary priests.

It has been suggested that such provisos are not effective in protecting a landlord from the severity of the law and cannot be set up as a defence to the claim that by accepting rent the breach of covenant has been waived.

Just as the Sages of old exempted themselves from some of the severity of the laws against contact between the sexes between relatives,45 so have we concluded that average people can be trusted to maintain appropriate relations despite social kissing and hugging and moments alone together, even behind locked doors.

The womenfolk were threatened with contempt of court and "the utmost severity of the law", but in the end the judges observed that it was "doubtfull that they should not get" anyone to serve, leading them to switch to trial by ordeal as an alternate mode of trial.