Sentence examples for accepting punishment from inspiring English sources

Indeed, "accepting punishment is designed to prick the conscience of those doing the punishing," Ms. Calman said.

Mbarek Lafrem, a native of Morocco who had been arrested in Manhattan, was the picture of ambivalence when it came to accepting punishment.

But accepting punishment for breaking a law one considers unjust has over time been a successful strategy for changing that law.

She told him to fight, but apparently her mere presence was enough to convince him that accepting punishment (for his long ago misappropriation of a client's money) was the right thing to do.

Accepting punishment also can have great strategic value, as Martin Luther King Jr observes: 'If you confront a man who has been cruelly misusing you, and say "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and just weapon.' (Washington, 1991, 348).

However, further investigations would be required to clarify whether VTA/SN and NA activations are associated either with the prediction of avoiding punishments or with that of accepting punishments.

Is he only a hero if he accepts punishment from a highly corrupt government who will do nothing more to punish him and make an example of not opposing the government?

I accept punishment for my actions.