How To Use Punishing In A Sentence

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
My boots have taken quite a punishing recently I need a new pair.
The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed.
Walking for any distance along shingle bank is punishing on the legs. Times, Sunday Times
The obvious antidote is not taking on such punishing workloads.

The setter's long-haired coat easily wards off the north country's brisk autumn climate and punishing brier tangles.
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.
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.
The downhills were far more punishing than I thought they would be.
The teacher was laid under the necessity of punishing the student who failed in the examination.
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
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
No international body is entrusted with the task of prosecuting and punishing those criminal offences.
He is insatiable in the quest for honours - often putting himself through a punishing schedule.
By going to this extreme you are unfairly punishing the individual in the pursuit of spiteful gossip.
To support her family, Ratcliffe plunged into a punishing work schedule.
Along with the gusty winds, torrential rains and the punishing power shutdowns, it rained snakes of all sizes and colours on the city.
Punishing or scolding a dog for being dirty, by the owner or breeder, may lead to a coprophagic behaviour.
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.
With the punishing economic downturn, police officers in many American cities are confronting what they describe as a surge in property crime.
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.
Getting shipshape in the New Year doesn't have to be punishing or expensive.
The time difference was punishing; games televised at 2.30 am, 5.30 am and 7.30 am.
Currently she has a punishing schedule of five presentations a day.
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One saving thought alone presented itself — this might be a trial, an experiment of the philosopher Agelastes, or of the Emperor his master, for the purpose of proving the courage of which the Christians vaunted so highly, and punishing the thoughtless insult which the Count had been misadvised enough to put upon the Emperor the preceding day. Count Robert of Paris
I think it is rediculous to block myspace for the simple reason that you are punishing innocent teens for something some stupid 12 year old niave kid with unattentive parents. Challenging Googleâ€™s NC Tax Breaks
Police departments generally tend to put a greater emphasis on punishing failure than on rewarding success.
And who maketh any doubt, that if those sleights and trickes, whereof this dayes argument may give us occasion to speake, should afterwardes be put in execution by men: would it not minister just reason, of punishing themselves for beguiling you, knowing, that (if you please) you have the like abilitie in your owne power? The Decameron
It's never been tried on a scale like this before in the public sector, but D. C.'s 35-year-old [Sivak] hopes unleashing his workers from face-time requirements and office schedules will help him overcome a managerial triple-whammy: punishing budget cuts, a citywide hiring freeze, and the perennial challenge of recruiting talented IT workers to lower government pay. DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 14, 2010
The ancestors watch over their descendants, punishing or rewarding them for their behavior.
Libya's stunning decision yesterday to surrender its weapons of mass destruction followed two decades of international isolation and some of the world's most punishing economic sanctions.
The noise level can be quite punishing, for a start.
Instead of simply punishing them, the system encourages offenders to modify their behaviour.
Evenings, he plays a punishing game of tennis.
Of course no-one but a Hollywood star would undertake a regime as punishing as that which transformed Croft's pixellated curves into flesh.
They made the worst possible start, with Stuart Reardon dropping a kick cold and Warrington punishing the error with a third-minute try.
Running 10 miles in a cross chop is punishing in any boat.
I guess I'm confused and angry: confused because the penalty is half what I thought it was and angry because I would have remortgaged at least two years ago given the less punishing penalty. Angry and confused over change in mortgage redemption charges
Movies about poor, uneducated mothers forced to work punishing jobs are even rarer.
Then they saw the need of delay, before completely punishing the wicked, to give space for repentance, or else for accumulation of wrath (Ro 2: 15); and before completely rewarding the godly, to give room for faith and perseverance in tribulation (Ps 92: 7-12). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It began in a blizzard of howitzer shells, mortar rounds, high-velocity machine guns, and punishing aerial strikes.
But this argument presumed wrongdoing by the petitioner and ignored the fact that there were already criminal statutes existing punishing such behavior.
They're proving they exist, punishing us for not believing in them, like gods.
His length had improved and he was much more severe in punishing any loose shots played by Darwish.
But a private company faces a much more punishing feedback mechanism - namely, bankruptcy - to ensure accountability than any public enterprise.
The sense of punishing frustration is heightened by the pounding rain in the opening scene, mirrored later by the emergency fire sprinklers that soak Banek's law offices.
He was, besides, the best sacrifice the higgler could make, as he had supplied him with no game since; and by this means the witness had an opportunity of screening his better customers: for the squire, being charmed with the power of punishing Black The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Infrastructure improvements are punishingly expensive and desperately needed in a place where, for instance, people travel by boat or plane because there are no roads connecting towns.
I hiked into palm washes and up unmarked trails, always water, carrying water everywhere, always a hat, wearing a broadbrimmed hat and a neckerchief, and I stood on promontories in punishing sun, stood and looked. Excerpt: Point Omega by Don DeLillo
Whether this model came about by malicious design or fortuity, the result is legal way to prevent consumers from exercising consumer choice and punishing companies for poor service. To Avoid Billions In Lawsuits, Cellphone Companies Propose Tepid Early Termination Fee Reform - The Consumerist
He observed no sort of moderation, such as befitted a private man, either in rewarding or in punishing; the recompense of his friends and guests was absolute power over cities, and irresponsible authority, and the only satisfaction of his wrath was the destruction of his enemy; banishment would not suffice. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Arshad Khan bowled with accuracy and determination and Danish Kaneria showed his thick skin, ignoring the relentless punishing he got, and coming back to bowl superbly at the end of the day.
Their twisted absolutistic thinking is all about punishing perceived rule breakers, while they break the largest rules of all and hide it or lie about it. GOP congressman chides the 'hard right'
The baseline game is itself ground out - too physically punishing. Times, Sunday Times
The obvious antidote is not taking on such punishing workloads.
His punishing straight-line style makes up for a lack of a second gear.
That's their main source of alcoholic sustenance: five bottles of Bud, Miller, Becks or Stella Artois will get them through even the most punishing night out.
_upon all_, it were found that some of _such_ counts -- that is, that some of the misdemeanours -- charged, must be withdrawn from the consideration of the court, by reason of defects in either the counts themselves or the findings upon them, it cannot, in many cases, be supposed that the sentence could be the same as if the court had the duty thrown upon it of punishing _all the offences charged_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
Wherefore Seneca says (De Clementia ii, 4) that "those are called cruel who have reason for punishing, but lack moderation in punishing. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Another version was that Longmartin was punishing him for ruining his little plan and he overdid it. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
However, we are all of us imperfect beings, and punishing the individual for life-style imperfections seems to me to be unsupportable in a civilized society.
At the starter's pistol, LaBuff, 23, immediately set a punishing early pace.
It begins with a character named Zoe who decries the practice of rewarding punctuality while punishing those who are late or disobedient.
Despite my professional training, I had always thought that I would smack my children if they needed punishing.
That can be done by upholding the laws, punishing the diver and his team. Times, Sunday Times
But in my office, when I have nothing to do, the world seems do dismal, pointless and punishing that it can be hard to remember flowers and sunshine.
Plus the punishing impact of US-led aerial bombardment. Times, Sunday Times
It is a punishing consequence of their defeat by Greece on the opening day, when their problems were first-night nerves and a lack of competitive-match practice.
You really do not expect a fellow human being to wantonly attack your livelihood with such punishing vigour and regularity.
And then there's the conflict avoider marriages, where it's just too punishing for them to disagree on anything so they just tiptoe around the subjects.
In one respect, anti-inflationary conditions are already punishingly tight. Times, Sunday Times
Rebel fighters had earlier rejected a deal allowing the regime to reassert control over the area in return for lifting a punishing siege. Times, Sunday Times
He claimed his punishing work schedule had made him resort to taking the drug.
This religious zealot is intent on only one thing: punishing women and trying to keep them “in their place” Think Progress » Kansas lawmaker compares rape to auto theft.
But local sanctions could also be harsh and were especially brutal in punishing the ‘sexual misconduct’ blamed on women.
His actual policy was far more pragmatic than his rhetoric about punishing aggression.
Behind both these minatory visions stands a bloodthirsty Father, damning and punishing.
With an angry exclamation she stopped to readjust the shoulder strap which her punishing pace had caused to slip. PASSION AND ILLUSION
Smacking is not an acceptable way of punishing a child.
No social objective is served by “punishing” the mentally ill who would have commited a crime butfor their lack of mens rea. Man Not Criminally Responsible for Greyhound Bus Beheading; Victim’s Family Call for Punishment : Law is Cool
The girl is apparently unrepentant, and is now ‘punishing’ the school by withdrawing her presence.
Mr. Sarkozy's proposal, far from being a break with France's recent past, is a continuation of government attempts to improve the lot of workers by punishing business owners, an impulse embodied most infamously by the 35-hour workweek law passed by the administration of Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. Sarkozy's War on Profit
He accused the president of surrounding himself with yes-men, rewarding only sycophancy and punishing dissent.
No international body is entrusted with the task of prosecuting and punishing those criminal offences.
Jay Hunter Morris, who took over the punishing title role just a week before the premiere, has a bright, pliant tenor—not large, but ringing and energetic. Of Gods And Monsters
You don't have to be in the path of a catastrophic hurricane to feel its punishing impact.
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
Instead of simply punishing them, the system encourages offenders to modify their behaviour.
In the winter, Kathy follows a punishing routine of heavy weight training with the help of personal trainer Mike Smith.
Preventing or discouraging bad behavior is also more effective than punishing the child.
The only man to retire from the punishing demands of the heavyweight category unbowed by defeat in any fight was Rocky Marciano.
Rebel fighters had earlier rejected a deal allowing the regime to reassert control over the area in return for lifting a punishing siege. Times, Sunday Times
He is insatiable in the quest for honours - often putting himself through a punishing schedule.
The going is punishing for about 1000 ft, following the line of an old rack-and-pinion railway used in hydro-electric construction.
A strip search will always be unreasonable if it is carried out abusively or for the purpose of humiliating or punishing the arrestee.
Body shapes changed almost overnight as the effects of a famously punishing routine which included speedball sessions and was rounded off by hopping up the stairs at the Athletic Ground began to take their toll.
The President has a punishing schedule for the next six months.
He was the bulldozer for college football's most punishing running attack, with the pancake block being his trademark.
He's barely visible at a party to mark the end of the 2009 Tour de France, and yet there is something fascinating about the mindset of a sportsman who puts himself again and again through punishing challenges without any ambition to win, and Bathurst coaxes him rewardingly out of his anonymity. The Bicycle Book by Bella Bathurst – review
Skinner also used a second type of punishing stimulus called the bar slap.
To punish her more, in the same way she's delighted for so long in punishing me. BEHINDLINGS
It will take humungous hikes in fuel tax, with punishing electoral consequences, to wean us off the impulse to escape at least once a year from lives which we've made so hectic; we have to have a holiday to restore our sanity.
There are other applications of punishing procedures.
As they did not insist on punishing the guilty, his supporters could take recourse to the ambiguities in political procedures to fudge the issue of criminal responsibility altogether.
The Act aimed to boost the fairness of fines, and introduced means-related unit fines as a way of punishing young offenders.
The inclusion of international law provides the State with a wider scope for punishing crimes than mere reliance on national criminal law.
It does not help matters that the series--where the meaty head of a drunken king lies uneasy, where plotters are overplotting and courtiers go a-courting in mutters--proceeds in a style that bears all the most punishing hallmarks of close fidelity to its literary source. Slate Magazine
Instead of simply punishing them, the system encourages offenders to modify their behaviour.
At the time, there was a rule that students could not bring radios to school, and the officials had been enforcing the rule with great vigor, seizing radios and punishing their possessors.
And, as we've shown more than once, we're perfectly capable of punishing both soldiers who abuse our trust and leaders who misapply it.
See how you square up to its finest exponents in a punishing half-marathon in Sardinia. Times, Sunday Times
He worked throughout this period, painting for collectors, for patrons who protected him, and as propitiatory offerings to those who were punishing him.
They owned the league's most punishing running game, one that gouged out nearly five yards per carry.
The film is a lot of fun to watch but obviously it must have been physically demanding and punishing.
Can left and right not join together to propose tough legislation punishing dead-beat dads who embrace the evolutionary model of man as inseminator? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Why Values-Voters Have Completely Failed
The teacher was laid under the necessity of punishing the student who failed in the examination.
A Craig MacMillan tap-in and another from Hart, punishing a goalkeeping mistake, made it four by the break.
His punishing work schedule had made him resort to drugs.
His counter techniques and blocks were often harder than Soken's, however, and often punishing.
He watched all his steps, and always spoke to him with an angry countenance; punishing him for what he called his dreadful rebellion against such a clement prince as the Stadtholder. The Black Tulip
To see the stricken submarine Chicoutimi wallowing from side to side in the punishing waters of the cold Atlantic last week made for some exciting television.
Inevitably this means multiple rucks to be cleared, which is punishing work. Times, Sunday Times
Lowell, on the other hand, may be the country's foremost long-and-far thinker, creating punishing single-day sojourns across some of the continent's most rugged terrain.
Drug addiction is a self- punishing disease that ruins mental, psychological and physical health. Dr T.P.Chia
It could be an immunity from a government action - for instance, my right to free speech bars the government from punishing me for speaking.
Since when is punishing someone for willfully and maliciously damaging another person's property "wrongheaded"? An Alternative Approach to the Graffiti “Problem” « PubliCola
This convinced D' Ewes that ‘all impartiall judgements [had] just ground to conclude it to be the finger of God himselfe, in punishing the mercilesse murthers of his dear Saints.’
Ms Carey appeared to blame her breakdown on EMI's punishing work schedule.
Then the members might agree to cooperate, and to join in punishing any member who defects.
the king imposed a punishing tax
Punishing someone for "ethnic animosity" is pretty vague. Archive 2008-05-01
The unattractive feature of this approach is that it will sometimes involve punishing the blameless.
Governments and churches had long maintained order by punishing nonconformists with mutilation, torture and gruesome forms of execution, such as burning, breaking, disembowelment, impalement and sawing in half. Violence Vanquished
But the enforcement power, the right to punish, everyone can do the punishing in the state of nature.
Plus the punishing impact of US-led aerial bombardment. Times, Sunday Times
She was noted for her meticulous research and her punishing schedules on location, editing transparencies and writing text. Times, Sunday Times
the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him
The sun was in a punishing mood even at four in the evening.
For both they that gathered more, and they that gathered less, were found to have the same quantity, God in this way punishing insatiableness. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
What are you benefiting from punishing the poor people?
Darius is a punishing hitter who provides dynamite run support.
And every law, properly so called, proceeds on these suppositions of obedience or disobedience, whence its commanding and punishing power are inseparate from its nature. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
set a punishing pace
The Act aimed to boost the fairness of fines, and introduced means-related unit fines as a way of punishing young offenders.
A wero can be threatening and punishing but a koha is more likely to be accepted as a peaceful gesture.
Currently she has a punishing schedule of five presentations a day.
Because I am insane and a glutton for punishing myself; because I love my little man and all the teeny, tiny babies I care for; because I would love to live to see the day that my job as a NICU RN is obsolete; because I will NOT be at BlogHer 2007 I will be participating in my first ever blogathon. In training « Adventures in Juggling
Over the past few days, they have packed shoulder to shoulder at rallies, waiting patiently under a punishing sun, some of them flaunting hilarious posters of the mzee, or old man, as he calls himself, with his face superimposed on an Incredible Hulk-like body. NYT > Global Home
Drug addiction is a self- punishing disease that ruins mental, psychological and physical health. Dr T.P.Chia
Currently she has a punishing schedule of five presentations a day.
The heat got up to a punishing 87 today, but my medication got me through that by lowering my body temp until I shivered under my quilt in an agued state.
Ariel Sharon vowing there will be no letup in his punishing policies.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me that the Doctor's control of the energy would be more punishing and exhausting - even damaging - than Rose's.
It was hard to imagine how that merry prankster and mistress of worthy causes could be subject to such punishing mood swings.
Like Grisone, they believe that the horse regards it as a reward when the rider or handler stops punishing it!
That can be done by upholding the laws, punishing the diver and his team. Times, Sunday Times
The rescue effort fell to ‘dalesmen and doctors’ who set off at 7pm that night to navigate the punishing terrain carrying lanterns and stretchers.
The awesome, all-encompassing responsibility of the producer, who oversees every stage of the film-making process, can be punishing.
Currently she has a punishing schedule of five presentations a day.
Granted, hard-core globalization critics were skeptical from the start because the Compact lacked a rigorous system for monitoring corporate behavior and punishing laggards.
Here's a peasant woman subsiding into exhaustion after a punishing day's drive: ‘She sits on the fountain ledge as if she has been deposited there.’
Instead of simply punishing them, the system encourages offenders to modify their behaviour.
Such a punishing schedule would have left much younger and fitter men peching in his wake, let alone a 63 year-old with a history of heart complaint.
For as he that only punishes a sin and does nothing to point out its most extreme lawlessness, produces no such great effect by his chastisement: so again, he who only abashes and fails to terrify by his mode of punishing, does not very keenly hit men of hardened minds. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
The Fed's rescue is on punishing terms: AIG must repay the $85bn loan at a storecard-like 8.5 percentage points over Libor, liquidating perfectly fine assets to do so. Undefined
Punishing or forfeiting the thing or animal that had done wrong was an old English institution, called deodand. A History of American Law
With his solo project becoming more and more prominent, Hebden found himself very much in demand and embarked on a punishing schedule of live appearances at festivals and venues all over the world, while also regularly deejaying.
Meanwhile, several foreign crew members who were unaccustomed to the punishing heat and humidity turned into sluggish grouches.
For Seneca says (De Clementia ii, 4) that "those are said to be cruel who exceed in punishing," which is contrary to justice. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
As such, he doesn't explain the essential mystery here - how modest funding for a laudable goal could have become such a punishing liability.
He has zero experience in the punishing, hand-squeezing, backslapping world of retail politics where most campaigns are won and lost.
He's a punishing runner with great desire who has improved his speed.
In Wednesday's order, the Bench said that since the incident had taken place in full public view inside the court hall of the Supreme Court and since the contemnor did not show any remorse and had admitted to her action, the procedure adopted by Justice Pasayat for punishing her and the other contemnors could not be faulted. The Hindu - Front Page
Rocky was the aggressor throughout the fight and landed all the punishing blows, but the judges announced Wallace as the winner.
Cromwell himself and other inspired persons, (for the officers of this army received inspiration with their commission,) was first opened the daring and unheard-of counsel, of bringing the king to justice, and of punishing, by a judicial sentence, their sovereign, for his pretended tyranny and maleadministration. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell
Punishing the failed joke-teller is a way to discourage that person from similarly violating the social contract in the future. My review of "Opera for Skeptics"...
The same want of kindling power in the national intelligence which made of the English Reformation one of the most sluggish and tedious chapters in our history, has made the still mightier advance of the moderns from the social system and spiritual bases of the old state, in spite of our two national achievements of punishing a king with death and emancipating our slaves, just as unimpressive and semi-efficacious a performance in this country, as the more affrontingly hollow and halt-footed transactions of the sixteenth century. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron
Indeed, the court was dead wrong when it found that Zaccari had not "conspired" to violate Barnes 'free speech rights because no one he consulted with and intended to conspire with would agree with him about punishing Barnes. Greg Lukianoff: A Crucial Courtroom Victory for College Students' Rights
Responsibility for the conduct of the affairs of Amnesty International, in the words of the Statute, involves a punishing schedule.
Those European fires are being fueled in part by a punishing heat wave that's lasted now for more than a week.
He claimed his punishing work schedule had made him resort to taking the drug.
Beating and punishing this kind of crimes was stood out by setting up this crime solely. With the development of market economy, there are many unadapted places of this crime in judicial practice.
Family and friends blamed a punishing work schedule for his collapse.
Mr. Anderson said his suit wouldn't interfere with the prosecution of Mr. Sandusky, because the suit is more about illuminating what he called "institutional concealment" at Penn State and Second Mile than punishing Mr. Sandusky. New Accuser Files Lawsuit in Penn State Abuse Case
Not only had she lured him into writing her dissertation, now she was punishing him for doing it.
In the hotter months, make the most of the early morning and evening, when the sun is less punishing and when the light on the striated, rose-red rocks is at its most spectacular.
My lungs bursting, belt buckle digging into my torso, creepy palm trees swaying and mocking me from above, I climbed the punishing rock-hard staircase leading to the Reserved Level lot and ticket kiosks. Jeff Polman: Tales From the Haunted Dodger Ravine
Austrian filmmaker Hubert Sauper paints Tanzania as the victim of a complex and punishing dynamic that exists between industrialized nations and the developing world.
There is perfect joy in controling ourselves disciplining our flesh and 'crucifying' it and in understanding that God is taking care of us - punishing us, lovingly, for our sins and directing us in what is right. Francis' Perfect Joy!
At an off-the-record seminar organised by a German think-tank recently, judges said punishing corruption severely would be hypocritical and harsh.
But the punishing rocks made strength and reliability as important as outright speed.
Ms Carey appeared to blame her breakdown on EMI's punishing work schedule.
Walking for any distance along shingle bank is punishing on the legs. Times, Sunday Times
The teacher admitted punishing the child, although he denied that the punishment was inappropriate, and he suggested that ‘these children are very pettish in manner, and I have no doubt that they sometimes tell stories at home.’
They were happiest dashing off into the unknown—their diaries are filled with accounts of momentous discoveries made after enduring punishing hardships: getting lost, eating raw vulture flesh, trekking through rain forests shoeless and clothesless, being sucked into whirlpools for hours on end, fending off rabid buffalo attacks, falling with their horses into hippopotamus wallows, having all their hair eaten by rats while sleeping and negotiating with armed, xenophobic natives ready to stone foreigners for trespassing on their sacred farmland. The Fruit Hunters
By nurturing my bitterness, I thought I was punishing my abusers, but I was only punishing myself, spinning my wheels purposelessly for years. Recovering From Religious Abuse
In the preface Platina not only avoids any antagonism towards the Church but even refers with approbation to the punishing of heretics and schismatics by the popes, which is the best proof that Sixtus IV, by his marks of favour, had won Platina for the interests of the Church. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Veteran coach Robert Waseige, who had heart surgery earlier this year, put his squad through a punishing schedule.
His punishing work schedule had made him resort to drugs.

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