severe sanction
Frequency: 7.895.1 per million words
Relating to punishment, usually plural 'sanctions'.
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- The international community imposed severe sanctions on the rogue state.
- Any violation of the code of conduct will result in severe sanctions.
- The court delivered severe sanctions against the company for environmental damage.
- They threatened to apply severe sanctions if the agreement was broken.
- Leaders debated the effectiveness of such severe sanctions.
- The new policy includes severe economic sanctions for non-compliance.
- Failure to meet the standards will lead to severe sanctions and penalties.
- Activists called for severe sanctions to pressure the regime.
- The organization managed to avoid severe sanctions by making last-minute changes.
- Critics argue that severe sanctions often harm the general population more than the intended targets.