The most severe penalty, she said, would be a fine.

Yet at the same time, we've had very severe criminal penalties.

Not paying them back at the end of the year will result in severe penalties.

"But I wouldn't dream of having a penalty so severe as that."

In other countries, he said, such organizations would immediately be subject to severe penalties.

But we get into a race each year, on the floor in particular, over the severest penalty.

But there must also be severe penalties for clear violations.

There was a severe penalty for activities of spreading education.

Severe penalties can be passed in child abuse or rape cases.

It was the most severe penalty ever dealt to a college football team.