1.   Attempts to breach these injunctions resulted in severe financial penalties being imposed on the print unions and the eventual cessation of hostilities.

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

3.   It was all very well for the government in Moscow to lay down severe penalties for its servants who maltreated the natives.

4.   Neglect of their duty involved severe penalties.

5.   Severe penalties are imposed for election fraud.

6.   Suppliers of credit exact severe penalties if the borrower defaults.

7.   The curve shows that a severe penalty has to be paid for increasing the final speed.

8.   The most severe penalty he could receive would be a suspension of pay, reduction in rank or confinement to the barracks.

9.   There are severe penalties for late payment of taxes.