Sentence examples for bad punishment from inspiring English sources

"Sending a homosexual to the penitentiary," he claimed, "certainly isn't a very bad punishment for a homosexual".

Perhaps Mr. Cannon was asleep when the prosecutor, urging the jury to condemn Mr. Burdine to death, argued that "sending a homosexual to the penitentiary certainly isn't a very bad punishment for a homosexual".

This will result in a very, very bad punishment.

You may get caught if you are inexperienced at this sort of stuff, and you may get a very bad punishment, such as a grounding, or an earlier bedtime if you get caught.

You may end up with detention, extra homework or other equally bad punishments.

"A kid that's that bad, the punishment is meaningless, so you try to talk to them," he said.

"But most of your clients are innocent, right?" "Not many of them deserve as bad a punishment as somebody's trying to give them".

So obsessive that when the financial doom they predict fails to materialize, they consider this a bad thing: punishment must be administered, so what are the markets waiting for?

You are always in danger of being exposed, and there is no limit to how bad the punishment could be".

Other embarrassment phenomena, whether in clinical or non-clinical settings, were bad conscience/self-punishment, secrecy/ taboo-thinking, poor self-image/esteem and in some cases, social withdrawal and personality changes.

Skinner identified four ways to manipulate behavior: four buttons to push — positive reinforcement ("Good dog! Have a biscuit"), positive punishment ("Bad dog! Whack"), negative reinforcement ("Good dog! Now I'll stop whacking you"), and negative punishment ("Bad dog! Give me back that biscuit").