(n.) The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act.
(n.) That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Cameron said: "I welcome the forfeiture committee's decision on Fred Goodwin's knighthood.
(2) The lack of information, revealed in a letter outlining the terms of the job offer and seen by the Guardian along with Lewis’s contract, meant the company was “unable to calculate the forfeiture values”.
(3) The penalty, which is subject to court approval, is the "largest ever bank forfeiture and largest ever [Department of Justice] penalty for a Bank Secrecy Act violation," according to the attorney’s office.
(4) A further amendment tabled by another 11 MPs, including Richard Fuller and Michelle Thomson, calls on the house’s honours forfeiture committee to recommend Green’s knighthood “be cancelled and annulled”.
(5) "I know the CQC are looking into disciplinary procedures and what can be done: what sanctions are available; whether you can have forfeiture of pensions, all those things.
(6) But the prime minister’s spokesman said Green’s knighthood was a matter for the forfeiture committee: “It’s a completely independent body and it doesn’t give us any guidance on what it is looking at.
(7) In theory a points forfeiture could dictate that Gus Poyet's side were relegated rather than, as seems most likely, Norwich, but the so called "gang of three" appear to have overlooked the formidable strength of Sunderland's potential defence.
(8) The Conservative MP Matthew Hancock backed the forfeiture committee decision but called for the heads of banks responsible for systemic failure also to be subject to criminal gross negligence charges.
(9) The US Department of Treasury is issuing a policy similar to the justice department’s for its forfeiture program, which began in 1993.
(10) Goodwin has no right of appeal, and in accordance with custom was given no right to make representations to the forfeiture committee, a group of four permanent secretaries.
(11) This is the first step in a comprehensive review that we have launched of the federal asset forfeiture program.” He said that asset forfeiture is a critical law enforcement tool when used appropriately.
(12) Evidence about how the family has made money is also being given to the NSW Crime Commission which could lead to an application for forfeiture of assets and banks accounts.
(13) Around 70 MPs signed a Commons motion calling for Goodwin to lose the right to call himself "Sir" and in April Labour MP Gordon Prentice wrote to the cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell, who chairs the forfeiture committee, to ask him to take action.
(14) At the end of a week-long court martial, in which Wilkerson did not testify, he was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault and sentenced to a year in jail, with dismissal from the air force and forfeiture of all pay and allowances.
(15) Paolo Di Canio's nemesis had an infinitely forgettable, extremely one paced, afternoon punctuated by subsequent forfeitures of possession and appalling first touches.
(16) "The Walker report has left in a reference to 'clawback' but it is not clear whether it means asking for the money back once it has been paid or forfeiture of the deferred, but as yet unpaid bonuses," said Alistair Woodland, a partner at Clifford Chance.
(17) Asked if Savile should lose his knighthood, Cameron said: "We have something called a forfeiture committee.
(18) Applicants are required to supply fingerprints and disclose their criminal history, with omissions punishable by license forfeiture or denial.
(19) To make matters worse, federal drug forfeiture laws allow state and local law enforcement agencies to keep for their own use 80% of the cash, cars and homes seized from drug suspects, thus granting law enforcement a direct monetary interest in the profitability of the drug market.
(20) Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland , has been stripped of his knighthood by the Queen on the advice of the forfeiture committee.
Penalty
Definition:
(n.) Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass.
(n.) The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine.
(n.) A handicap.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
(2) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
(3) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
(4) His arm was being held by Muntari who let go of it as he entered the penalty area.
(5) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
(6) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
(7) And they face the criminal penalty and administratively their visa is cancelled.
(8) BAE is likely to have made provision for much heavier penalties and its financial stability will not be threatened.
(9) Under any other circumstances, a penalty of life imprisonment could be imposed on both the woman undergoing the abortion and anyone assisting her – even if the abortion is sought because of a fatal foetal impairment, for example, or because the pregnancy is the result of rape.
(10) The National Basketball Players Association has asked the NBA to ban Sterling from attending playoff games and to impose the league's maximum penalties if the comments are verified to be his.
(11) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
(12) The department of corrections stressed that the two reviews were the initial reports into the execution and were narrowly cast to look specifically at whether the requirements of the state’s death penalty protocol had been complied with.
(13) He went over to win a penalty against Mexico the other day, and blah blether blah.
(14) But Vokes’s second-half penalty and Gray’s 61st-minute strike won it for Burnley and left Fulham two points away from the relegation zone.
(15) In many countries, male same-sex relationships are punishable by 10 years behind bars; in at least two, the penalty is death.
(16) So why are you doing it in the second half?” Kompany refused to accept the penalty decision might cost City a place in the last 16.
(17) We carried English prestige into the inaugural season of the Europa League, taking Atlético Madrid into extra time in the final and within five minutes of a penalty shootout.
(18) Sow had a couple of chances and the substitute Emmanuel Emenike drew a sharp last-minute save out of Szczesny but Giroud's penalty, after Kadlec's foul on Walcott, represented Arsenal's emphatic final word.
(19) Perisic darts in from the edge of the penalty area to get on the end of it and thumps a meaty header wide.
(20) United had been spared and, in the next attack, Jesse Lingard turned Michael Carrick’s crossfield pass across the penalty area for Rooney, so beleaguered recently, to head in the team’s first goal for six hours and 44 minutes of play.