threat of punishment

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

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

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

On the contrary, all those comprehended in the order, left the village immediately, for they feared the threat of punishment.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Emma Helen Blair