21.   Judges have started to impose the punishment again, seeing them as a deterrent to rising crime.

22.   Other states also are imposing harsher punishment.

23.   Recently, however, he has joined judges nationwide who are going beyond the statutes to impose unconventional punishments to shame law-breakers into changing their ways.

24.   Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, who sponsored the law, said today that it was meant to impose punishment, swiftly and harshly.

25.   The argument that some formal punishment must be imposed to show that Mr. Clinton earned the disapproval of the legislature and many compatriots is fatuous.

26.   The House of Representatives will vote on what punishment to impose on Speaker Newt Gingrich without having a full report from the ethics committee on his offenses.

27.   The law also imposes harsher punishment on heads of criminal organizations.

28.   The law is meant to impose harsh punishment for violence specifically committed out of prejudice against others because of their race, color, religion or national origin.

29.   The State Department has already imposed that punishment on a Mexican telecommunications company, Grupo Domos, and a Canadian mining concern, Sherritt International.

30.   They insisted that the fight was not over and warned China that Congress is prepared to impose other punishments before the end of the year.