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Punishment in sentence

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In any case, pillorying the clients is both a just punishment and an effective deterrent.
Crime and Punishment, Refugee StyleThe horrible murder of Giovanna Reggiani that took place near a Romanian refugee camp in the suburb of Tor di Quinto in Rome shocked both Italy and Romania.
Collective punishment also means not only a type of amnesia by Italians and Romanians about what happened under fascism, nazism, communism, but also for their own national histories.
On a lighter note, Sarkozy’s Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand, the nephew of the former president, is being excoriated by the media for supporting Roman Polanski against efforts by the United States to extradite him to face punishment for the rape of a minor three decades ago.
The current crisis is severe punishment for that immense intellectual error.
Moreover, analysts should not limit themselves to the classic instruments of punishment and denial as they assess cyber deterrence.
For example, better attribution forensics may enhance the role of punishment; and better defenses through encryption may increase deterrence by denial.
After all, when nuclear punishment seemed too draconian to be credible, the US adopted a conventional flexible response to add an element of denial in its effort to deter a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.
Capital punishment may now be supported by a majority of Americans, but the death penalty is regarded as an egregious violation of human rights across Europe - indeed, across much of the world.
These countries had not been guilty of irresponsible and inflationary fiscal and monetary policies, for which austerity is the natural punishment and cure.
The election was not over policies, simplistic or not, such as war or peace, lower or higher taxes, more or less public spending, how to combat poverty or create jobs, to permit or prohibit capital punishment, abortion, gay marriage, or whatever.
The beauty of a big-data dictatorship is that it could sustain itself less through direct threats and punishment as a public spectacle, and more through “nudges” to manipulate people’s perspectives and behavior.
To decide whether selling prison-cell upgrades corrupts the meaning of criminal justice, we have to decide what purpose criminal punishment should serve.
Last year, his administration threatened, via its ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, to impose financial punishment on countries that contested its formal recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Criminal proceedings may then be downsized to a confession of a single massacre, as subsequent trials are shelved to open the way for punishment – unlike, say, the Milosevic trial, which is now dragging into its fourth year.
But rapid punishment – most likely execution – threatens to bury the full record of decades of tyranny under the apparently overriding purpose of fighting the insurgency by other means.
In 1979, then-New York City Mayor Ed Koch took to public radio to read out the names of “Johns” arrested for patronizing prostitutes, heightening their punishment by public shaming.
Moreover, deeply entrenched notions that leprosy is divine punishment destroy the reputation and self-esteem of those thus diagnosed and cast a shadow over their families.
But, while Labour’s punishment delivered a Conservative government in London, it produced a majority victory for the SNP in Edinburgh in 2011.
Given the innumerable atrocities that the FARC have committed, the prospect of suspending punishment is difficult to accept.
The best democratic punishment for politicians is not to re-elect them.
Having invaded an oil-rich Arab country that played no role in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, the United States has imprudently allowed itself to be sucked into its attackers’ primitive logic of collective punishment and group revenge.
George H.W. Bush’s administration (of which I was a part) worked hard to thread the needle: introducing sanctions to convey displeasure with the Chinese government, but limiting the punishment and keeping lines of communication open, given China’s importance.
They regard his murder as just punishment for the "traitor" Djindjic's decision to extradite Milosevic--and other Serbian "heroes"--to The Hague.
The goal of global action should be to incentivize farmers to reduce their antibiotic use, not to mete out punishment.
After escaping punishment by employing a large legal team and doling out generous bribes, Clodius entered politics in an effort to secure the respect of the ruling class, which was quick to dismiss him as a buffoon.
Certainly, the US government’s symbolic punishment of chess legend Bobby Fischer (for playing a match in Belgrade that violated sanctions) provided no relief for the besieged city of Sarajevo.
Media capture works in much the same way, with political leaders either owning media outlets outright (think of Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi) or ensuring that media leaders are loyal to them, whether through cronyism or punishment.
Also tellingly, the accused member of the hated religious minority was jailed for life and condemned to a method of punishment – solitary confinement on an island 3,000 miles away – that was invented just for him after his conviction.
Simply talking about the responsibility to protect, as Obama once did, accompanied by even limited strikes – perhaps as punishment for Assad’s reported recent use of chlorine gas against civilians – would change the game quickly.
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