threat of punishment
Example Sentences
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Players do what the coach wants, on and off the field, whether or not they receive a direct command or verbal threat of punishment.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023
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
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
Therefore a threat of punishment should have been included in each, and not only in the first and second.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
