31.   But states face severe financial penalties if they flout the law, which is complex and ambiguous on many points.

32.   But such severe penalties are seldom imposed.

33.   But the waning interest is more noticeable in the suburbs, where people depend on their cars for transportation and risk severe drunken driving penalties if they drink.

34.   But there must also be severe penalties for clear violations.

35.   But they also placed severe penalties on recipients who, for whatever reason, failed to comply with the rules.

36.   But when Congress warned there could be severe penalties if ABC took that course, the executives at the network changed their minds.

37.   Cal could be banking on the theory that cooperation helps a school avoid the most severe penalties.

38.   --Captains who sit on disciplinary boards of rights have been instructed by Parks to impose suitably severe penalties on officers found guilty of administrative allegations.

39.   Censure is a far less severe penalty than expulsion and has been imposed more frequently, including in such prominent cases as that of Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.

40.   Cuba also approved a law that imposes severe penalties against political opponents.