The phrase "actively punished" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means that someone is being punished in a manner that involves active effort or participation. Example: The teacher actively punished the students who were caught cheating on the exam by making them retake it without any help or extra time.
In Gears, an exposed player is actively punished by the game, as the damage inflicted by enemy bullets and explosives spikes nastily whenever cover is abandoned.
Sandberg, Facebook's COO and the author of Lean In, teams with Wharton professor Grant to describe how women speak less in meetings not only because they are often "manterrupted", but also because, evidence suggests, women are actively punished for making themselves heard.
Individuals that fail to call are frequently discovered and, here, actively punished.
In the other two environments, we still rewarded one function but actively punished the performance of the other function by reducing an organism's CPU cycles.
Instead of doing that, or anything like it, we are actively punishing the victims.
Organisms may also actively punish noncooperators.
Neither China, nor by default Hong Kong are therefore bound by these protocols which recognise the vulnerable status of these women, or actively punish those who take advantage of them by abusing their vulnerable status.
Moreover, there is scant evidence that culprits are being actively sought, let alone punished, for their crimes.
Even before the bombshell revelations that his top aides actively sought to punish the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey by closing down on-ramps to the George Washington Bridge, it was fairly obvious that Christie was a man whose decisions were guided as much by impulse and emotion as political calculation.
In Sweden, the legal system actively prosecutes and punishes johns; offenders can face fines based on their income, and a john can go to jail if the purchase of sex is made through organized prostitution.
Staff are so determined to bring out their prodigies' genius that pranks, known as 'hacks' in the community, are rarely punished and instead, actively encouraged.
