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He resurrected the father because he wanted to punish him for being such a jerk by making him live longer at his sucky life as a poverty stricken coolie.
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Paul, whose father seemed to brutally punish him for his son's aggressiveness (and unconsciously for the boy's possessiveness of his mother), has adjusted to reality by living within the confines of a control in his life that prevents accidents or passions from taking place.
Very intelligent action movie, about two Irish brothers who kill 'sinners' to punish them.
Patton began to be criticized during these initial months of the occupation by people seeking to punish all of former Nazis, which in the Germany of that time was roughly about 75 percent of the adults.
The US will certainly try to punish such companies, whether by targeting their local subsidiaries, by trying to haul them into US courts, or by denying them access to the US market.
In other words, the country that is breaking its promises has decided to punish those that have kept theirs.
Growth, it seems, is attributed here not to those who produce it, but to those who punish it.
Simply put, the old Soviet system of fear continues to wreak havoc on the truth and punish those who defend it on the page.
But the desire to punish the British, if only to deter other member states from bolting, is surely also a contributing factor.
It would show that the West does not seek to punish Russia or Russians generally, but only those individuals about whose role in human-rights violations the West has good evidence.
If she is unlucky, the crisis will come to a head at the start of the German election year, and all previous calculations could be moot, because, despite Germans’ frustration with Europe, the electorate would punish severely those who allowed Europe to fail.
But it is unlikely that he will force her to resign before then, because markets would punish such an obvious violation of central-bank independence.
Thus argued John Connally, then-US Secretary of the Treasury, in 1971, in his successful bid to convince President Richard Nixon that the time had come to punish Europe by pulling the plug from the Bretton Woods system.
While extremist groups have traditionally received funding from the Peninsula, it is not sound policy simply to accuse the Saudis of incubating all that is bad in the Middle East, and punish them accordingly.
In countries where order may break down at any moment, it may not be better--as it is in stable, well ordered countries--to let ten guilty men go free rather than punish one innocent man wrongly.
An uprising that would give the allies the city without a fight, however, is too much to expect so long as they fear that Saddam might survive to punish them.
It is inarguable that Israel has a right to defend itself against attacks on its citizens, but it is inhumane and counterproductive to punish civilian populations in the illogical hope that somehow they will blame Hamas and Hezbollah for provoking the devastating response.
Arab oil-exporting countries embargoed oil sales to the US and the Netherlands to punish them for their support of Israel.
In Europe, the call to punish Britain pour encourager les autres – to warn those contemplating the same – is already rising.
Third, don’t punish Britain.
Nonetheless, political trials (and war crime trials are always political trials) must not only punish, but also teach.
The League of Nations failed because it could not punish or deter such behavior.
The system’s crimes have been evident for years, and it is tragic that no international power has been able to punish it.
Suspicion is certainly the order of the day in the US, where the authorities have announced massive sanctions against two Russian tycoons, Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg, as part of an effort to punish the Kremlin for its alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Governments are increasingly expected to change peacefully, to cooperate regionally, to attract the capable, and to punish the corrupt.
Shareholders would instantly realize that the books were cooked, and roundly punish the offending company's share price.
It is a bitter paradox, indeed, that the developed democracies use the power of globalization to punish us commercially by discriminating against our citizens and exports.
Both guard their social standing jealously – and may even punish a guest who attends the other’s party by withholding future invitations.
But Treasury officials believe that they must keep up the pressure, lest Congress follow through on threats to punish supposed currency manipulators, derailing the TPP and other trade agreements.
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