Sentences with phrase «while civil sanctions»

So while civil sanctions (no prison) is the more likely threat - are you comfortable with this?

Not exact matches

And while the social customs, civil laws, and authoritatively sanctioned principles of a society can be said to have determinative influence on the social practices and development of a society, still it is the case that these social customs, etc., have that efficacy only as enacted by individuals in daily social intercourse.

Under the old evidentiary system, therefore, when a Texas driver or passenger involved in an accident had failed to buckle up, he or she faced the anomalous situation of being subject to a criminal sanction for that omission while facing no adverse consequences for it in a civil suit arising from the same events.