punishing

The administration routinely justifies punishing free-thinking institutions on grounds that grants and contracts are privileges, not rights.

Democrats said Republicans were punishing people by refusing to attach health insurance subsidies to the spending bill.

Do we play the left’s game—silencing, canceling, punishing, authorizing the government to pick winners and losers in the private sector?

But his job in sentencing her is “punishing her conduct and not JPMorgan’s stupidity.”

Cutting the corporate tax would break the standard New Jersey practice of offering huge tax incentives to specific businesses while punishing the rest with high rates.