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From my experience, and from what I've heard from Congressional insiders, most of the people going to Congress are good, hard-working, intelligent people who really want to solve problems, but once they get there, they find that they are forced to play a game that rewards hyper-partisanship and that punishes independent thinking.
The school's sports coach (Marc Smith) saves Marty & punishes the gang who rather harshly blame Marty, they decide to play another trick on him only this time things get out of hand & Marty is caught in an explosion & has nitric acid splashed over his face.
Hope tries to escape but the man punishes every attempt.
Soap opera starring Barbara Stanwyck as Lora Hart, nurse in training who rooms and works at a big hospital under a stern head nurse, a real stickler for the rules who punishes nurses who stay out past curfew by putting them on night shift in the emergency ward.
It steers clear of easy points and summaries and paints a complex portrait of complex characters caught up in a severely flawed legal system that punishes children more than adults.
On top of this, the director thinks he's Bergman or something, and punishes us further with "arty" shots which are neither pretty nor arty.
Nevertheless, the city of San Francisco punishes him and he decides to take matters in his own hands.
Lise, thus far not experienced in the ways of the flesh, has a crush on Gwen that is not returned, and then punishes Gwen for spurning her interest by sabotaging Gwen's "romances".
But my position is based on ample evidence that the death penalty does not actually deter the crimes it punishes.
Financial History’s False LessonsTOULOUSE – If history punishes those who fail to learn from it, financial history does its punishing with a sadistic twist – it also punishes those who learn from it too enthusiastically.
A Nigerian law that took effect in January punishes homosexual acts in that country with 14-year prison sentences.
Theirs is a model that favors the strong and punishes the weak, and that rewards competitors at the expense of cooperators.
Senior bank managers and regulators have a common interest in developing a more effective system – one that punishes the guilty and creates the right incentives for the future.
But, despite almost half a century of membership in the Council of Europe – ostensibly a guardian of human rights, including freedom of speech and conscience – Turkey still punishes a crime against national honor any suggestion that the Armenian genocide is an historic truth.
How much of it will be lost, particularly if a new regime in Baghdad punishes Jordan for its close ties with the Iraqi government, is a worrying question.
It can be ensured only by an electorate that respects reality and punishes politicians who lie or engage in other forms of deception.
It has no guile, and it punishes us only incidentally.
Creating an environment that rewards genuine value creation and punishes value extraction is the fundamental economic challenge of our time.
And I would have you believe, my sons, that the same Justice which punishes sin may also most graciously forgive it, and that no ban is so heavy but that by prayer and repentance it may be removed.
It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions.