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
Let’s call for the divulgence of those accounts immediately under serious threat of punishment for anyone aiding their subterfuge.
From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022
The district offers a bold example of how local authorities across drought-stricken California are trying to get people to use less water, voluntarily if possible but with the threat of punishment if they don’t comply.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2022
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
Under threat of punishment we forbid any citizen to revile the lords, although they may be our enemies.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin
