1.   Lanier was a predator in black robes, and for that he deserves the stiff prison term he was sentenced to.

2.   But, considering the harm they are doing to young people, those who sell cigarettes to kids should face at stiff prison sentence.

3.   Hence the new law promising stiff prison terms for large-scale digital piracy.

4.   Sunday, four leaders were given stiff prison sentences for, among other charges, allegedly telling ill followers that they could dispense with conventional medicine.

5.   That law mandates stiff prison terms for hordes of young, low-level drug users and dealers who are caught twice.

6.   Under the Rockefeller laws, judges are now bound by rigid guidelines requiring stiff prison terms for drug offenses, even for possession of relatively small amounts of drugs.

7.   Parliament has imposed stiff prison sentences to combat drug trafficking and drug abuse, problems that were virtually unknown under the former Communist regime.

8.   A Philippine court gave a Briton and a Burmese stiff prison sentences Tuesday for smuggling heroin into the country last year.

9.   Ashcroft previously has expressed a desire to expand to other cities the federal Project Exile in Richmond, Va., in which gun offenders are given stiff prison sentences.

10.   Before the Papoulias visit, the Albanians released five members of the ethnic Greek minority who had been given stiff prison terms on charges of spying for Athens.