Imagine bribing an Alzheimer's patient to keep her dementia from worsening, or threatening to impose a penalty on her if it did.

试想，你能否贿赂一个阿尔茨海默氏症患者让她减少痴呆，或者威胁她如果情况继续恶化就对她施以惩罚。

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This usually involves taking into account the length of the prisoner's sentence (as also happens in Australia and New Zealand) or giving judges the discretion to impose a ban as an extra penalty.

通常要考虑囚犯的刑期(澳大利亚和新西兰也是如此)，或者赋予法官将禁止权作为额外处罚的权利。

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Article 39 to impose administrative penalty according to the provisions of Article 38 of this Law, an administrative organ shall fill out form of decision for administrative penalty.

第三十九条行政机关依照本法第三十八条的规定给予行政处罚，应当制作行政处罚决定书。

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The Pew report points out that some issuers (Bank of America) no longer provide the rate or terms for the penalty fee, only including a sentence in the fine print that states they reserve the right to impose a penalty fee.

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So if your business is anything like the vast majority of small businesses out there, this requirement simply won't apply to you -- because I don't think it's fair to impose a penalty on small businesses that are already operating at very narrow margins.

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Rather, the purpose of this hearing is to determine what penalty to impose on Mr. Gingrich.

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