penalize

How To Use penalize In A Sentence

• Physicians and hospitals fear the practice could unfairly penalize practitioners and say there's no way to benchmark quality accurately.
• I believe it is unfair to penalise parents who miss the payment of this allowance due to this.
• The data will strengthen arguments that raising the retirement age will penalise the poorest. Times, Sunday Times
• People who drives when they are drunk should be heavily penalised.
• This bill aims to take away the criminalised aspect of that, and it de-penalises the aspect of having evidence of safe sex on the premises - that is, condoms, sheaths, diaphragms, and lubricants.
• To my knowledge, the patient relations office never discussed the matter with the surgeon -- I certainly never heard from him -- but I did receive a termination letter followed by a series of surprisingly rude and condescending letters from their risk management attorney after I pointed out that HIPPA promises patients will not be "penalized" for filing a privacy complaint. Genital Photos, HIPAA and the Media
• It was not until 1985 that the law penalized the client for kerb-crawling, even though for many years it had penalized prostitutes for soliciting in the street.
• In some respects, teams are almost penalized for converting first downs in the two-minute drill because it just takes that much longer to get the next play off.
• Right now on the TTR when you change members of a team the team rating is penalized 150 points.
• Egg claims that 70% of loans are paid off early but, in spite of this, four out of five lenders penalise borrowers for early settlement.