21.   If the talks break down, Washington and NATO have promised severe military punishment for Milosevic.

22.   If the grandfather is found culpable, he will deserve severe punishment.

23.   In addition, they said, severe punishments should be set for continued noncompliance with court orders.

24.   In pronouncing sentence, Justice Leslie Crocker Snyder of state Supreme Court in Manhattan said that Walsh had been fortunate not to have received a more severe punishment.

25.   Instead, you see something called ruggedized laptops - portable computers designed to take severe punishment.

26.   Ironically, it came less than a week after Chris McCarron appealed a five-day suspension to argue that he should have received a less severe punishment.

27.   Many people in China say that the threat of severe punishment and the likelihood of arrest during Strike Hard campaigns keeps would-be criminals in line.

28.   More severe punishment is expected.

29.   Moreover, after such an extended time, the acceptable state interest in retribution has arguably been satisfied by the severe punishment already inflicted.

30.   Nor is severe punishment common.