threat of punishment
Example Sentences
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Fifty-seven respondents said staff didn’t comply with mask mandates, even when prisoners were made to mask constantly under threat of punishment.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2023
The presiding judge for King County Drug Court, Mary Roberts, said the threat of punishment is a motivator to at least try the program.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2023
It does seem to suggest that the threat of punishment is limiting pitcher advantage over hitters — which, one could assume, meant those substances were giving pitchers that advantage in the first place.
From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2021
Yet generations of fellow Catholic leaders faced the same dilemma of suspicion from one side and threat of punishment from the other.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2020
It redounds to Raleigh's especial credit that in an age when great license was customary in dealing with savages, he strictly prohibited his men, under threat of punishment by death, from insulting the Indian women.
From Raleigh by Lang, Andrew
