"Police officers who ignore or brush off a plea for help violate their oath to this city, and deserve severe and decisive punishment," Mr. Safir said.
"We have all preparations in place for strong and decisive punishment, not only against the source of the aggression and its support forces but also the commanding element," Major General Kim Yofg-hyun of the South Korean army told a news conference in one of the clearest threats Seoul has made.
Yet it would be more accountable, more decisive in the punishment of failure and the rewarding of success.
You could argue, I guess, that completely righteous smacking reinforces an important message about justice – punishment will be decisive and unyielding – but here you have to make damn sure you're right.
By Katharine Wallace The New Yorker, March 19 , 1960P. 33 The Times, reporting the committee vote that deprived the California legislature of the opportunity to consider Governor Brown's request to outlaw capital punishment, remarked, "The decisive vote on the measure ironically came from Sen. Stanley Arnold of Susanville, who voted last year for abolition.
His punishment was swift and decisive: Security forces arrested him, threw him in a jail cell and branded him a spy, he says, adding that they beat him.
World Cup organisers RWCL welcomed the "decisive and timely" move and said no further punishment would be handed out.
While only time will tell if that punishment will prove to be the decisive blow, a 10-match losing run following a promising first half to the campaign has cost the Exiles.
This morphing of the German mood from the once welcoming arms for asylum seekers to furious demands for punishment and closure can only be addressed through decisive political action by the governing authorities.
The punishment for those who failed to back the bill was swift and decisive.
After that first failed vote two months ago, Perdue noted in a closed-door meeting that there were no punishments meted out after McCain and Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) provided the decisive votes.
