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penal

/peen-l/US // ˈpin l //UK // (ˈpiːnəl) //

刑法,惩罚,刑罚,刑法规定

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
    • : prescribing punishment: penal laws.
    • : constituting punishment: He survived the years of penal hardship.
    • : used as a place of confinement and punishment: a penal colony.
    • : subject to or incurring punishment: a penal offense.
    • : payable or forfeitable as a penalty: a penal sum.

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Examples

  • Responsibility for resolving the situation fell to Russell Oswald, the state penal chief who’d been in his position for less than a year.

  • He has been transferred from one miserable penal facility to another where he is now on a regimen of “vitamin therapy.”

  • He said he sent documents to the penal service informing it of his whereabouts.

  • Krivov was sentenced to serve four years at a general regime penal colony for his fight for freedom and human rights.

  • This sum, outlined in the penal code, is double for a male than it is for a female.

  • And in just one night, we committed at least two offenses under his newly implemented penal code.

  • Those whom the state considers dangerous are walked through show trials and banished into the notoriously harsh penal system.

  • Who then could be tried as a war criminal under the 1871 penal code?

  • Since the examination of this harbour, a penal settlement has been formed, and a pilot appointed to conduct vessels in and out.

  • William's reign was marked by a long list of new penal laws directed against them.

  • The Corporation would virtuously disown him and leave him to face a ten-year rap in Penal Colony.

  • A terrible criminal case was the result, and the man was sentenced to penal servitude for life.

  • The third penal Bill brought in and passed was said to have been specially recommended by the King himself.