Sentence examples for arbitrary punishment from inspiring English sources

In reality, they go on, it is an "arbitrary punishment".

"A climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary punishment, permeated most of the institutions," the report says.

Written by Matthew Dabner and Mr. Edgerton's brother, Joel, it turns a humdrum Down Under backwater into a black hole of haphazard crime and arbitrary punishment.

However, unions also protect effective teachers from arbitrary punishment by school administrators who may be opposed to innovative ideas that come from the teaching staff.

The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the action as "arbitrary punishment" of individuals who have not been found guilty in court, and warned that it may employ a retaliatory visa ban against Americans.

E. Neil Trautwein, a vice president of the National Retail Federation, said the delay "will provide employers and businesses more time to update their health care coverage without threat of arbitrary punishment".

He found that when animals or people were given a series of arbitrary punishments or rewards, they stopped trying to do anything constructive.

His Angelo is a young neo-con who turns the lax society he inherits into a repressive state complete with endless surveillance, prison beatings, rigged trials and arbitrary punishments.

The miners often worked fourteen hours a day, with few safety precautions, and there were no labor laws to protect them from the arbitrary punishments and fines imposed by the owners.

Observing that one of his old classmates now wears his "button-down shirt buttoned one button too high," Nugent writes, "It occurs to me that many people who have withstood arbitrary punishments from life are not tough, in any conventional sense of the word".

You try to unravel the enigma of the island by exploring the island, but there's no time pressure to distract you, no arbitrary punishments put in your way".