If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one’s crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
Penalties are like the lottery and you miss them when luck is not on your side.
Often, I allow teammates to take my penalties so they can have goals, but no one talks of that.
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.
Whenever we have penalties and take a 10-yard penalty down the red zone, it gets tough.
Our players are our human capital and we want to make sure that, while football remains a pretty rough, tough game, that we’re doing all that we can to make sure that they’re as safe as possible in terms of equipment and penalties.
I pay parking tickets. You know, you can try to give 50%, but then they charge you all those penalties! Seriously, I have gotten many, many, many tickets in my life.
I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours’ eyes.
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