Sentence examples for element of punishment from inspiring English sources

Punitive damages "add an element of punishment to the plaintiff for conduct that was so outrageous," said Andrew Siben, a lawyer for Mr. Conlon.

Almost all community sentences will involve an element of punishment, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has announced.

Deterrence theories are criticised for treating people as brutes not rational agents capable of responding to moral reasons because the deterrent element of punishment gives people a prudential reason (relating to the prospect of punishment), not a moral reason, to refrain from breaching the law.

In any other genre a game as difficult as this one would be called punishingly hard, but PGR4 lacks any element of punishment.

The first element of his punishment was probably not deprivation or discomfort, but plain homesickness.

"The whole-life order, the product of primary legislation, is reserved for the few exceptionally serious offences in which, after reflecting on all the features of aggravation and mitigation, the judge is satisfied that the element of just punishment and retribution requires the imposition of a whole-life order," the lord chief justice Lord Judge said.

"The result is that the whole life order, the product of primary legislation, is reserved for the few exceptionally serious offences in which, after reflecting on all the features of aggravation and mitigation, the judge is satisfied that the element of just punishment and retribution requires the imposition of a whole life order.

Conservatives favor the policy for bringing the free-market element of reward and punishment to education, and, along the way, weakening the protection that unions afford teachers who are deemed to be underperforming.

And that element of exposure and public punishment is what Ms. Rice zeroes in on.

There is an element of slapstick in this punishment, as well as a severe and uncompromising notion of responsibility.

The disconcerting element of this reaction is the threat of punishment to be directed at precisely those small consumers, already struggling with higher banking fees.