Punishment in sentence

713 examples of Punishment in a sentence

But if it shows that capital punishment works, it's a good study.

And vice versa: if you don't support capital punishment, same thing.

So they can believe that capital punishment works.

The psychologist Steven Pinker and others have shown that all around the world people are becoming less and less accepting of suffering in ever-widening circles of others, which has led to declines of all kinds of cruelty and violence, from animal abuse to domestic violence to capital punishment.

Because if you look up the word "justice" in the dictionary, before punishment, before administration of law or judicial authority, you get: "The maintenance of what is right."

If we think more about consent, we can see that victims of privacy violations deserve our compassion, not criminalization, shaming, harassment or punishment.

This thing has got to be considered a cruel and unusual punishment."

So the next time you voluntarily subject yourself to what was once a cruel and unusual punishment, just be glad you can control when you'll hop off.

But Sisyphus may still have avoided punishment if it hadn’t been for his reckless confidence.

Sisyphus’s punishment was a straightforward task – rolling a massive boulder up a hill.

In his classic essay The Myth of Sisyphus, existentialist philosopher Albert Camus compared the punishment to humanity’s futile search for meaning and truth in a meaningless and indifferent universe.

For kids it feels like punishment, and for teachers it feels like babysitting.

I was sentenced to a decade of punishment in a correctional institution.

We notice when those laws are broken and there's some of kind of ramification or punishment.

The punishment for winning is that you have to construct the whole hunt for the following year.

So we really motivate the dog to want to do it, such that the need for punishment seldom comes up.

People here get very confused about what a punishment is.

They think a punishment is something nasty.

There's several definitions of what a punishment is, but one definition, the most popular, is: a punishment is a stimulus that reduces the immediately preceding behavior, such that it's less likely to occur in the future.

You see, the punishment was working.

And as soon as people heard about the punishment issue going on, cooperation shoots up.

It helps to have some sort of punishment.

Even if it's just shame or embarrassment or gossip, you need some sort of punishment to bring people, when they're in large groups, to cooperate.

Now, first-graders can also understand the difference between a punishment and a consequence.

And the punishment that the dictators are using to intimidate them must not prevent us from getting what we want.

This means now a judge can sentence a defendant to punishment with assistance.

And the reason that the attitudes were terrible there was because everyone who was sent there understood they were being sent there as punishment.

Over 150 years ago Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky took these questions up in what would become one of the best-known works of Russian literature: "Crime and Punishment."

"Crime and Punishment" was conceived and completed the following year, picking up on many of the same themes.

Yet although the book is deeply concerned with morality, "Crime and Punishment" never comes across as merely moralizing, with each character given their own distinctive and convincing voice.

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