The phrase "a punishable act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an action that is subject to legal or disciplinary consequences.
Example: "The committee determined that cheating on the exam is a punishable act and will result in severe penalties."
Alternatives: "an offense" or "a criminal act".
Young Taliban (the word means students), who grew up in a society where owning a television was a punishable act, gawked at images being transmitted by satellite from this dusty desert town to New York, London and Tokyo.
Any child over the age of, say, 8, knows it is not only morally wrong to sign your name to something you did not write but that it is a punishable act.
The "hate crimes initiative" would make brutality motivated by a victim's gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity, or disability a federally punishable act.
Vandalism is a legally punishable act and in this case its perpetrator has been duly charged, but in the all too surreal unusualness of this election, perhaps the desecration could have stood to be a monument to our democracy and a historic symbol of the year 2016 and the divided times we live in.
SHAARTUZ DISTRICT, Tajikistan — Farhod, a farmer in this dusty southwestern spit of land pushed up against the Afghan and Uzbek borders, said that he had committed a subversive and potentially punishable act this growing season.
Private copies are still legal to own and personal use is not punishable; however any public screening is a highly prohibited and punishable act.
Further analysis, by the International Law Clinic, brings to light that, 'ordering' if considered as a punishable preparatory act, must be consistent with other preparatory acts.
Therefore, under RS Art 8(2)(e)(viii), an order whether the displacement is carried out or not constitutes a punishable preparatory act.
Self defense is one of many affirmative defenses available under the criminal law, which will, if established, preclude a finding of guilt even if it is proved that the violent, otherwise punishable act took place.
"We know that moral credibility suffers when one does not responsibly and rigorously deal with such horrendous, punishable acts," Father Langendörfer said.
Coercive treatment (CT) in Russia is a court mandated medical measure applied to persons who committed a punishable "socially dangerous act" (SDA) and who are suffering from a mental disorder if it is proved that their dangerousness is due to such disorder.
