Example collocations logo

Punishment in sentence

713 examples of Punishment in a sentence

But Eurobonds would also create huge incentive problems, because debtors in the eurozone periphery would no longer have to fear any punishment by markets and might thus be induced to consume and invest too much.
Defamation – defined with more broad descriptors like “libel” and “damage to reputation” – was reinstated as a criminal act in 2012 as well, with legislation that specifies “libel against judges, jurors, prosecutors, and law-enforcement officials” as an act worthy of harsh punishment.
The granting of the pardon power reflected concerns among the US Constitution’s framers that the criminal code would be applied in a draconian manner, producing a surfeit of punishment.
And, given that he was not to be sentenced until October, one cannot argue that he faced draconian punishment (a key concern for America’s founders).
Though he vowed “severe punishment” if the Saudis did indeed kill Khashoggi, he refused to countenance canceling military contracts, instead lamenting what their loss would mean for American jobs.
Although the current draft excludes the mother from punishment, the way the bill is structured suggests that the exception may very well be removed from the final version.
But there is a major difference between the search for historical truth, which is an absolute must for a society at large and the search for the settling of scores and the punishment of those found and declared guilty.
An example of such collective punishment occurred in Uganda in 2014, when the World Bank froze some $90 million in loans following the government’s enactment of legislation criminalizing homosexuality.
Crime and No Punishment for the Iraq WarPRINCETON – Last month, the New York Times marked the 15th anniversary of the US-led war against Iraq with a poignant column by Sinan Antoon, an Iraqi novelist living in the United States, entitled “Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country.”
Given these repeated breaches of the SGP’s deficit requirements, together with a similar lack of commitment to the pact’s debt limit (60% of GDP), it is hardly surprising that punishment for some states has come from the markets.
As Karen Dawn points out in her book Thanking the Monkey, solitary confinement is considered cruel punishment for humans.
Kids (like Oliver Twist) were punished in ways designed to break them; poor people convicted of relatively minor offenses were transported to Australia, or given publicly humiliating forms of punishment; police had unchecked and violent power over the poor.
Valle had asked the court to halt his execution, on the grounds that to spend so long on death row is “cruel and unusual punishment” and therefore prohibited by the US constitution.
In April, the US banned the sale of such chips to the Chinese telecom giant ZTE as punishment for the company’s violations of US export rules.
The problem is that the criteria Western governments are using to identify Russians worthy of investigation and even punishment remain overly broad.
But punishment for the perpetrators of female circumcision remains rare.
For example, some supporters of the ban have argued that circumcision violates Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which states that, “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.”
Years later, what’s at stake is not just punishment, but also political truth, which requires setting limits on official rationales for repression.
Because life is social to the core, disconnecting people from the networks we all use to survive and thrive can be a powerful punishment – and can be meted out in a decentralized way.
It is to deliver a form of decentralized punishment that makes it very costly for dictatorial regimes to violate other people’s rights with impunity and to create pliant cadres of henchmen who “only follow orders,” as if that exempted them from moral responsibility.
Expanding Crime and Punishment in TibetNEW YORK – China has been widely criticized for its harsh treatment of almost any form of political dissent in Tibet.
The definition of what constitutes child abuse varies by culture; but about 15% of children suffer each month from what the UN calls severe physical punishment.
The Yom Kippur War was, in many ways, Israel’s punishment for its post-1967 arrogance – hubris always begets nemesis.
Once in office, the new democratic government decided that before punishment could be meted out, the whole truth about the violation of human rights should be established.
Mutahi eventually spent 15 months in the infamous Nyayo House torture chambers as punishment for his writings.
How should it be judged by those attempting to end the practice of exempting from punishment government officials guilty of monstrous crimes?
First, one should consider the severity of the crimes committed by those who would escape punishment.
As punishment, Zeus bound Prometheus to a rock and sent his drone-like eagle – also forged by Hephaestus – to feed on his liver.
Leprosy is thus an infectious disease; it is not hereditary, let alone a divine punishment.
The ultimate indignity was the withholding of a fellowship on which he depended to support not only himself, but also his single mother – a punishment for his political activism.
BackNext