How To Use Punish In A Sentence
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As he ran past, the arquebusier shouted something about Susanoo, the kami of storms, and how he was punishing them for their arrogance.
Blood Ninja II
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Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel , Austrian pianist.
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Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you ; music cannotpunish ---- only bless.
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Some teachers also punish students by flogging them with whips made of rubber (from strips of old car tires), with heavier canes, or simply by slapping, kicking, or pinching them.
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And the moral murder of my child is to be my punishment for daring to turn a deaf ear to the indign passion of a brute!
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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The government is proposing tougher punishments for officials convicted of corruption.
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The French and Dutch results were punishment for political failure on a grand scale.
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There must then be obedience to an infinite law, or _infinite_ punishment for transgression.
The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church
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My boots have taken quite a punishing recently I need a new pair.
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Now there is a problem in that the Framers did not include a power to punish for contumacy.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The proper understanding of “Necessary and Proper”:
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The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed.
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Walking for any distance along shingle bank is punishing on the legs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Korea Skating Union suspended Lee Jung-su and Kwak Yoon-gy from all competitions until April 2013 as punishment for allegedly helping to fix competitions and national team tryouts in March, KSU official Kim Tae-wan said.
Two South Korean Olympic medalists get 3-year skating ban
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Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.
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In the Qing Dynasty, the officials's penal system includes two parts: disciplinary sanction and penal punishment.
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In ways often too subtle to be conscious but sometimes overt, I believe, blacks remain devalued in American schools, where, for example, a recent national survey shows that through high school they are still more than twice as likely as white children to receive corporal punishment, be suspended from school, or be labeled mentally retarded.
Race and the Schooling of Black Americans
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It was said that national crimes can only be, and frequently are, punished in this world by _national punishments_, and that the continuance of the slave trade, and thus giving it a national character, sanction, and encouragement, ought to be considered as justly exposing us to the displeasure and vengeance of him who is equally the Lord of all, and who views with equal eye the poor _African slave_ and his _American master_! [
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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Worshipping in unregistered churches was strictly illegal, and those caught often faced severe punishment.
A Church for China
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Worsted in this war of love Shiva punished the mischievous god of love Madana for aiding that maiden by causing springtime to appear on the scene before its wonted time.
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Courts may punish the unlawful party indirectly by refusing to protect the void civil-law acts.
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Compliance strategy seeks to prevent a harm rather than punish an evil.
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The obvious antidote is not taking on such punishing workloads.
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Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
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Why don't they punish those meanies for being so mean?
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He was brutally punished for his role in making an illicit radio receiver.
Times, Sunday Times
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The murderer attempted to escape from law punishment by spoiling his own face.
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Although marijuana is technically illegal, personal consumption is arguably decriminalized due to the ‘ban on excessive punishment’ written into German law.
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In our Columbia County Study, we relied on parent and child reports of parental punishment, rejection, nurturance, and monitoring.
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No, I am not saying that these three popular role models, who were exploited by Home Trade to make suckers out of the common man, must be punished for their silly mistake.
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When we glance over the history of flagellation and realize that, though whipping as a punishment has been very widespread and common, there have been periods and lands showing no clear knowledge of any sexual association of whipping, it becomes clear that whipping is not necessarily an algolagnic manifestation.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
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If you go against nature, it will punish you.
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Actual punishment should only be used as a last resort; a sharp tap with a cardboard strip is quite sufficient.
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The sentence is consistent with punishments previously meted out to those charged with establishing parties.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do you believe in spanking or any other form of corporal punishment?
Doug Peine - An interview with author
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He was pursued up the tunnel by Jock and had to lock himself in the dressing room to avoid condign punishment.
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I remember anticipating the possible punishment of being caned for writing about ‘an enemy’ - a Western Christian woman - and later being admonished by mum for provoking the authorities.
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One fan has captured the despair by calling his blog Capitol Punishment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyone breaking the law will be severely punished.
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The punishment is so severe that it is a deterrent for the criminal to commit the crime.
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Given his appalling record, he deserved serious punishment.
The Sun
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Just before he was guillotined he made a speech vowing that he would return from the dead to punish his captors.
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The double punishment was harsh and killed the game as a contest.
The Sun
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He was in hell, surely, eternal damnation and punishment and it would never ever end…
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It needed expiation - atonement to remove guilt and the liability of punishment.
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Criminality, we trust, will be investigated and punished.
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David Bernstein: But let me add that by your reasoning, the fact that almost everyone thinks that shoplifting should be a crime, whereas almost everyone thinks that discrimination should be punished as a less serious civil matter, means that almost everyone thinks that shoplifting is more serious than discrimination, which by your lights means that everyone is a racist.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge
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Hence their punishment was to be achieved through persuading them to repentance and guilt.
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The criminals were punished and blinded
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Capital punishment is a highly emotive issue.
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The Government needs to bring in more stringent punishments for drivers who flout the law.
The Sun
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The setter's long-haired coat easily wards off the north country's brisk autumn climate and punishing brier tangles.
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So far as the essence of justice is concerned, there is no difference between one of the cases of punishment which you called barbarous, and one in which the penalty follows the offence within the hour.
Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
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You see things far worse on the pitch all the time go unpunished.
The Sun
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If the anti-abortionist can show that the foetus is a person, then ‘you mustn't kill people’ becomes a good reason not to allow abortion - although it's also, on the face of it, a good reason not to allow capital punishment.
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we had to punish this child in loco parentis
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The text may also be viewed as a legal instruction, issuing from God, requiring a particular and mandatory punishment for murder.
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It is expected to make speeding punishments more flexible, with drivers caught marginally over the limit getting two penalty points and those way over, six.
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The punishment in this instance is not arbitrary; it bears some relation to the punishable behavior.
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As a result, the juvenile justice system has emphasized rehabilitation, not retribution, requital, or punishment.
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But this past year has been an especially punishing one for the country, with a drought over the summer leading to an exceptionally meagre yield of wheat, maize, sunflowers, soybeans and sugar-beet - all key crops.
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Anybody that pretends to do that in the United States will be very, very severely punished.
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Don't punish your child for being honest.
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Special courts under such proclamations tried and punished those who transgressed against the orders of the military authority.
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We usually hear from the eldest grandson regularly but I suspect we are being punished for not approving.
Times, Sunday Times
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The parents punished their disobedient child.
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The duds keeping one job ahead of their last disaster would be found out and punished.
Times, Sunday Times
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The magistrates committed her to Preston Crown Court for sentence after ruling their powers of punishment were insufficient.
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No punishments have been meted out to anyone as yet but an investigation is going on.
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If there are scumbags thieving from the public coffers and we expose them and punish them, then the rule of law is upheld and we are all better off.
Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Scandal in Black & White
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The King is at first inclined to agree with this principle and to mete out to the sororicide the punishment he deserves.
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Does he get punished, does he ever get in the solitary?
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They know that forms of discipline which reward good behaviour, rather than punishing the bad, are more effective, safer and promote better relationships at home.
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What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he is yours.
Othello
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Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976, seven states have executed a combined twenty-two juvenile offenders nationwide.
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If wrongdoings are uncovered, then the wrongdoers must be punished.
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The downhills were far more punishing than I thought they would be.
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Norms use the clubs of stigma and shame to punish deviants, nonconformists, and radicals.
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They seriously believe that capital punishment is a deterrent.
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But if some receive swift and exemplary punishment it will serve as a deterrent to the rest.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is time to leave stoning as a form of capi tal punishment behind us as a race, to relegate it to the same place we have put stringing heretics on racks -- in a chapter of our past that we are not proud of.
José Ramos-Horta: An Appeal for Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani
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Those scientific minds brave enough to point out these obvious flaws get fired, while the insane, lazy, and stupid continue to uphold a broken system that clearly doesn't work, punishes innocent citizens, overcrowds prisons, and generally increases suffering.
Allison Kilkenny: Government Adviser Fired For Saying Alcohol Is More Dangerous Than Drugs
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Besides she is his, shouldn't he be the one to administer any punishment?
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The traditional spanking-or "paddling" - punishment for infractions was not so much in evidence anymore.
Homoeroticism In The Ranks
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But it does not matter where issues of capital punishment and deterrence are concerned.
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You can apply to my father for money if you still want to punish him for not backing you.
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He was demoted from the rank of general as a punishment.
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The teacher was laid under the necessity of punishing the student who failed in the examination.
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Faced with the reality of being alone for the first time she talked openly and honestly with John about her feelings: her disgust with herself, her fear of failing at her job, her growing conviction that her childlessness was a punishment, and the frequent wish that she could simply die and put an end to her misery.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
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Short prison sentences or a light physical punishment are the norm in most criminal cases.
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The women are punished for refusing arranged marriages, or if their family fails to produce a promised dowry, or who in some way bring dishonour on their family.
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She knows what she did was wrong and wants to be punished for her crime.
The Sun
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Charles the Bald could warn or punish by leaving a trail of havoc along his line of march.
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The judge said the punishment would serve as a warning to others.
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It aims to reduce the likelihood that they will need to be punished again.
The Sun
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And the law already punishes those found guilty of that insanity.
The Sun
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He went on to say that the fugitives had been pursued and captured and brought back to bondage; and upon Borrow's admitting that he had been the instigator of the adventure, he was sentenced to be flogged, and that it was on the back of this very Martineau that he had been "horsed" to undergo the punishment!
Hawthorne and His Circle
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I don't really believe in capital punishment, I'm just playing the devil's advocate.
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There must be some one for the duke to punish," heroically; "otherwise he will refuse.
The Goose Girl
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God, however, decided to punish them for their presumptuousness in erecting the tower by making them speak different languages.
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She knows what she did was wrong and wants to be punished for her crime.
The Sun
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Successful collusion often takes a third party to regulate the agreement and punish defectors.
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Severe punishments are meted out to violators.
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The person would feel even worse if the cheater does not get her or his just punishment.
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I don't think anyone, in principle, disapproves of revenge when the punishment imposed on the perpetrator is exactly the appropriate amount.
What's Wrong with REVENGE?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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They were punished when they had done wrong and rewarded where praise was due.
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It's a chance to punish the government of the day.
The Sun
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What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he's yours.
Othello, the Moor of Venice
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The war criminal laid violent hands on himself to escape punishment.
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Obviously what she did was wrong, but I don't think it warranted quite such severe punishment.
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Machiavelli admired Borgia for enforcing the summary punishment of evildoing without incurring the hatred of his subjects.
Matthew Yglesias » Luce & Machiavelli on Leadership
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The prison service pursues the twin goals of the punishment and rehabilitation of offenders.
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The executive member said people in society felt as though there was no severe punishment for capital offences.
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Rather than rewarding whistleblowers who had been punished for their good deeds, Obama has signing statemented away constraints on his power to retaliate against whistleblowers by firing them.
Six Months of Immunity
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And maybe, just maybe, that awareness could coalesce into a market force that rewards openness and accountability, and punishes arbitrary, high-handed behaviour.
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They seriously believe that capital punishment is a deterrent.
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If all of us punish the new usage with ridicule and opprobrium, maybe we can reverse this loss to language.
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The failure to address indiscipline by proper punishment is a victory for the do-gooders and defeat for children's education.
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If approved by the House, the punishment would allow Gingrich to continue as speaker.
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Energy companies are set to impose another round of punishing price increases on consumers, despite a steep slide in the wholesale price of gas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dr Jatinder Singh from Medicine Department said that every section of the society has to play collective role in checking female foeticide which is a punishable crime.
Medical Terrorism -7800 girls are being killed before birth every year in J&K
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We need harsh punishments for children who attack people for just being told off even if it means bringing the birch back.
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When punishment comes - such is the arbitrary nature of things - it is often for the wrong offence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Neither does it follow, that, on the supposition of the satisfaction pleaded for, the freedom, pardon, or acquitment of the person originally guilty and liable to punishment must immediately and “ipso facto” ensue.
A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity
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Singapore still considers graffiti an offense punishable by flogging.
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This pattern is repeated in time: in the cult of Christ as the "son'' he is the "intercessor" and savior juxtaposed to the avenging, punishing father.''
Indic Ideas in the Graeco-Roman World
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Community punishment is used for less serious offenders.
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Justice has prevailed; the guilty man has been punished.
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No international body is entrusted with the task of prosecuting and punishing those criminal offences.
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He is insatiable in the quest for honours - often putting himself through a punishing schedule.
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Voters also punished the big parties where councillors had introduced fortnightly rubbish collections.
The Sun
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The battle of the sexes, (c. 1918 – c. 2007), the colorful dialects, the familiar supernatural characters in newish situations, the punishments meted out by omnipotent powers, these all are equally interesting. bc Says:
A GOTHIC ADVENTURE • by Paul A. Freeman
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Jacobean plays always end with bad deeds punished.
Times, Sunday Times
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The governor's repeated claim that he will raise the issue of capital punishment during the 2004 session may be no more than a bone tossed to his more rabid supporters.
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By going to this extreme you are unfairly punishing the individual in the pursuit of spiteful gossip.
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She empowered him to tell them, that whatever blame she might throw on Mary's conduct, any opposition to their sovereign was totally unjustifiable, and incompatible with all order and good government: that it belonged not to them to reform, much less to punish, the maleadministration of their prince; and the only arms which subjects could in any case lawfully employ against the supreme authority, were entreaties, counsels, and representations: that if these expedients failed, they were next to appeal by their prayers to
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
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To bring in the law as a big stick with which to beat parents of recalcitrant kids implies that there can be no discipline: only punishment.
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They have cataclysmic visions of what will happen to the world if Orestes escapes punishment, since there will be no justice to this matricidal murderer.
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Democrats will complain he overemphasizes punishment at the expense of prevention and treatment.
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Here, too, he delineates his subject through a series of paradoxes: do English charivari and Skimmington rides represent punishment or celebration?
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The history of racism in accusations and punishments for rape is sordid and shameful.
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Threatening to withhold sacraments to punish people for their political leanings is upsetting to people in many different faiths.
Bishop Raymond Burke Crosses Political Line
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Euripides' Electra ironically questions belief in a metaphysical system that encourages crime only to punish it.
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The offence they were being punished for was having long hair and corrupting the nation 's young.
Times, Sunday Times
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A libeller may be punished by fine, imprisonment, or the amputation of the ears.
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It's a chance to punish the government of the day.
The Sun
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Its defendants praised the reformatory emphasis of Pentonville, its generally softer punishment regime, its system of solitary confinement, and its emphasis on prisoners' self-development.
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As Baker repeatedly told jurors, the intent of punitive damages is to punish, not destroy.
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The term hudud means 'limit', implying the defined bounds of acceptable Islamic behaviour and the respective punishments for serious crimes.
KTemoc Konsiders ........
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So Scalia's insistence that the Catholic Church does not consider capital punishment immoral rests on the word "practically" in the Church's catechism.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Yet the law already makes such behaviour a crime, punishable by imprisonment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mentality of collective punishment raises its ugly head in all wars, there is no difference in the behavior of soldiers at war, they all act in the most bestial way.
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These particular punishments, the lectures that preceded them and the screams they provoked, were recorded on a giant reel-to-reel tape recorder that stood in the living-room.
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Their punishment seemed rather stiff.
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When these cultural and social divides are discussed, the focus can often turn to corporal punishment.
Times, Sunday Times
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To support her family, Ratcliffe plunged into a punishing work schedule.
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In its latest directive, the education ministry banned what it described as inhuman and merciless punishment given to students in schools.
BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
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The new law will ensure that habitual criminals receive tougher punishments than first-time offenders.
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Oak and beech trees line many of the fairways, waiting to punish wayward drives.
Times, Sunday Times
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Along with the gusty winds, torrential rains and the punishing power shutdowns, it rained snakes of all sizes and colours on the city.
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Punishing or scolding a dog for being dirty, by the owner or breeder, may lead to a coprophagic behaviour.
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According to present law, the authorities can only punish smugglers with small fines.
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Should Bermuda bring back hanging (or any other form of capital punishment)?
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Like a zealot who demands a public flagellation to expiate his sin, Martin's thirst for punishment grows until his mental health is in doubt.
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The 18th minute, because assigns a penalty discontentedly to the president of the jury, Tan Wangsong obtains this competition's 2nd yellow card to punish enters the stage.
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Liberal over crime and punishment - I believed in public hanging.
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When a bird trying to fly upwards is made to fall upon the earth snare, it is a plain proof that the snare is there; so, Israel, now that thou art falling, infer thence, that it is in the snare of the divine judgment that thou art entangled [Ludovicus De Dieu]. shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing -- The bird-catcher does not remove his snare off the ground till he has caught some prey; so God will not withdraw the Assyrians, &c., the instruments of punishment, until they have had the success against you which God gives them.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In the normal course of events, by punishing the guilty and not punishing the innocent, a system of criminal law affirms shared values and supports social cohesion.
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Publication in contravention of this provision is an offence punishable on summary conviction with a fine not exceeding ￡1,000.
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Still, man is the only prisoner who knows he is condemned to capital punishment; that the sentence is without appeal; and that it has been passed already.
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With the punishing economic downturn, police officers in many American cities are confronting what they describe as a surge in property crime.
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No one who has been finally acquitted or convicted of, or pardoned for, an offence shall be tried or punished for it again.
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You smack your forehead as punishment for saying that.
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Similarly, unlike many of their continental European neighbours, the English clung to corporal punishment as a penal sanction until well into the twentieth century.
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Sheffer -- who knew what makes business men laugh -- pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky.
Success A Novel
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Both victims' estates have filed claims for punitive damages, which are designed to punish the killer and deter future slayings.
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Many thought this too lenient a punishment for a teenager who had created the world's most prolific computer worms.
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When we fail to justly punish the criminal, the community sees justice aborted.
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The flame of truism burns bright in Shane's love for Dostoyevsky's kind of Crime & Punishment.
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Now actually there's no mention at all in the report of punishments or penalties for those found guilty.
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Our increased knowledge of hygiene has transformed resignation and inaction in face of epidemic disease from a religious virtue to a justly punishable offence.
Infinite in All Directions
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We know we have to listen to victims, punish lawbreakers, ban criminals from ministry, and open up the decision-making process.
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As it is now, you are being punished by your partner for making eyes at a gent at a party.
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I want those horrible soldiers who were responsible for this to be publicly punished and humiliated.
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Kim argues that simply heaping more punishment onto bullies is an easy way out for a society that doesn't want to grapple with widespread homophobia.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: Palin Revives Death Panels; Boobs Against Breast Cancer; and the Anti-Gay Bullying Crisis
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Oh, ermined Judge whose duty to society is, now, to doom the ragged criminal to punishment and death, hadst thou never, Man, a duty to discharge in barring up the hundred open gates that wooed him to the felon's dock, and throwing but ajar the portals to a decent life!
Dickensian Verse
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The only way to establish obedience in a child is to punish each and every wilful disobedience to a command.
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There would be advance from punishment to probation and from probation to release.
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The western community rose up to protest the cruel and inhumane punishment.
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The assistant chief watched as she was forced to reclean toilets and showers and was then punished further by being ordered to clean long-neglected storage rooms, light fixtures, and so on, in an ever-lengthening list of humiliating chores.
Getting Even
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Kurt Vonnegut
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Borgonie was relieved that his physically punishing and time-consuming nematode bet had paid off.
Space Odyssey: Scientists go to the extremes of the earth to divine the secrets of extraterrestrial life.
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Getting shipshape in the New Year doesn't have to be punishing or expensive.
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The threat of collective punishment for individual infractions is one of the most powerful motivators in military training.
The Army We Have
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But if the plea can be supported by a finding of guilt alone, a defendant might escape punishment altogether.
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Now, it's probably a bad idea most of the time for guards to slug inmates - although I can think of lots of exceptions - but it isn't cruel and unusual punishment.
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Football's violence, it is true, is contained within rules and conventions, and controlled by a punishment regime, but it is also irreducible.
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The time difference was punishing; games televised at 2.30 am, 5.30 am and 7.30 am.
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It called for a free vote on marijuana, and also for possible referendums on abortion and the restoration of capital punishment.
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Forces and trends that will make capital punishment one of the defining issues of the coming year are converging from several directions.
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As to which concrete punishments should be annexed to which crimes, the judgment is a prudential one left for public authority to determine.
