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Punishment in sentence

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You know, we look at running as this kind of alien, foreign thing, this punishment you've got to do because you ate pizza the night before.
There is no punishment for apostasy.
There is no punishment for personal sins like drinking.
The closest we get to crime and punishment is likely what we see on TV.
And if you ask someone honest what should happen to whomever did forge those checks, an honest person is much more likely to recommend strict rather than lenient punishment.
It also has implications for blame and punishment.
If we truly want to make an impact on this drug crisis, we need to have a serious conversation about prohibition and criminal punishment.
We have come so far down the road of prohibition, punishment and prejudice that we have become indifferent to the suffering that we have inflicted on the most vulnerable people in our society.
And he would react to being disturbed on a Saturday morning by stalking into the playroom and administering a very freewheeling form of a corporal punishment, lashing out at whoever was within arms' reach.
If you live in the state of California, for example, there's a referendum coming up this spring where actually there's going to be an effort to redirect some of the money we spend on the politics of punishment.
And we got carried away with the rhetoric of punishment.
And I think our current punishment philosophy does nothing for no one.
But if you have a smartphone, it's not those things, it's symbolic punishment and reward.
So on social networks, social punishment and social reward function as the punishment and reward.
Or the punishment: "Oh my God, they don't like me, maybe somebody else is more popular, oh my God."
Bail was never intended to be used as punishment.
And I think the severity of that punishment tells you how bad you are as a person.
And also important is talking to communities so that we change interpretations of religious or customary law, which is too often used to justify punishment and fuel stigma.
And Will was ultimately executed as punishment for that crime.
But I don't want to talk today about the morality of capital punishment.
She gave me an indulgent smile, and as punishment, she said, "Tomorrow I'm teaching a class on Indian history, and you are sitting in it, and I'm grading you."
For example, any social history will reveal that mutilation and torture were routine forms of criminal punishment.
There were numerous ingenious forms of sadistic capital punishment: burning at the stake, disemboweling, breaking on the wheel, being pulled apart by horses and so on.
Today, we look at capital punishment as evidence of how low our behavior can sink, rather than how high our standards have risen.
So we said, "Okay, give us a reward and give us a punishment.
Now give us a punishment.
Punishment and examinations are seen as threats.
The North Korean authorities intercepted some money that I sent to my family, and, as a punishment, my family was going to be forcibly removed to a desolate location in the countryside.
And it wasn't about me, and it wasn't a punishment for taking the wheel and driving a few miles.
It was a punishment for daring to challenge the society's rules.
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