Sentence examples for damaging punishment from inspiring English sources
It was an era of "spare the rod and spoil the child," and parents routinely meted out painful and damaging punishment without comment or penalty.
Despite the life damaging punishment that each endured at the fists of the other, they did not hesitate to meet again in the ring, a total of three memorable bouts.
Alternately voracious and manageable, it can inspire socially beneficial acts of retaliation and punishment as well as damaging ones.
The spill, the worst in United States history and growing more damaging by the day, cries out for accountability and appropriate punishment.
He has issued a mea culpa, and is doing the right thing, though his punishment is surreally analogous to a surgeon being found to have conducted many incorrect and damaging operations and in turn been made to attend medical school.
Last week, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called on federal Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein to impose "substantial punishment" on the 18 defendants indicted in what the mayor called "the largest and most financially damaging corruption scheme" in municipal history.
It means - according to the way the Romans executed one in 10 soldiers as a punishment - destroying 10% of something, but is often used as a hyperbolic description of an even more damaging event.
