In 1992 Congress passed a law mandating severe sanctions against Russia if it peddled significant weapons to Iran.

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The draft law places severe restrictions on the use of frozen embryos -- created as part of a fertility programme but no longer needed or claimed by the parents -- for the purposes of medical research.

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If Congress reaches agreement, it is likely the new tax law will not be as severe on the rich as the expiration of the Bush tax cuts in 2013.

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Mr Previti might have had a more severe sentence but for a loophole in the law.

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Under military law, nonjudicial punishment is a less severe form of punishment than prosecution.

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Interestingly, the gender pay gap is widest for those with an advanced degree, suggesting that discrimination is most severe in highly skilled fields, like finance and law.

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The Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2013 keeps death as the maximum punishment in severe rape cases.

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What about this story that we, we mentioned earlier on today, the story about 100, 000 new, Labour to invite a 100, 000 foreigners a year into UK, ministers announce sweeping changes in immigration law to attract workers because we're short because of a severe skills shortage among British workers, is that a good idea?

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In the federal system, severe restrictions have been imposed on the ancient writ of habeas corpus, a common law doctrine predating the U.S. Constitution by several centuries, which allows the wrongly convicted to attack their trials and verdicts.

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That would have put a severe limit on the sale of guns with industry standard 10-bullet magazines when the provision of the law went onto effect on April 15.

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