1.   But the stiff punishment will not allow him to ride in major stakes during his suspension, as jockeys involved in lesser infractions do in California.

2.   Gekas said he believes Clinton might have to face such stiff punishment.

3.   He knows he has become a case study of how inflexible federal mandatory sentencing can deal stiff punishment for relatively minor offenses.

4.   It is that Florida has made the biggest fuss, with stiff punishments and high-profile cases.

5.   The incident generated public interest as far away as Indiana, much of it demanding stiff punishment in animal-abuse cases.

6.   Under both the old and the new rules, the IRS levies a stiff punishment for failing to meet the minimum withdrawal requirement.

7.   Weld referred to Dukakis when Kerry attacked the governor as willing to posture as tough on crime but unwilling to follow through with stiff punishment.

8.   Worse, a stiff punishment would probably have put the brokerage in the red again this year.

9.   In an already nervous market, those disappointments brought stiff punishment to the entire sector, analysts said.

10.   In the past month, official media have trumpeted stiff punishments for several leading officials.