Sentences with phrase «potentially punishable»

Technical offenses - such as «stock parking,» net capital, or margin rule violations (to give only examples from the federal securities laws)- are thus potentially punishable under the same statutory provisions that prohibit fraud.

I think that being a scientist at that era was extraordinarily exciting and challenging, because societies were governed by scholasticism, and new scientific ideas were heretical and potentially punishable by death.

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Simply possessing any amount of heroin is punishable by a minimum $ 1,000 fine and up to a year in prison for a first offense; by a third conviction, that rises to a minimum of three months in jail (and potentially up to three years) and a minimum $ 5,000 fine.