punishment
Example Sentences
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But the punishment struck many people as excessive.
From Salon
"It has to be this way: in addition to the formal punishment in the judicial system, we're saying, 'You have no place here'," she said.
From Barron's
The moves also are convincing Arab states they might need to deliver some punishment to re-establish deterrence, people familiar with the matter said.
What he wants is a chance to argue to a judge that the city’s speech rules are unenforceable, so he “may return to the amphitheater to speak without fear of further punishment,” Justice Kagan writes.
But the new regime quickly replicated the same punishments at Evin.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
