Sentence examples for executed as a punishment from inspiring English sources

J Magnier, Al Rai's chief correspondent, said the bodies were more likely to be of Isis fighters who fled the battlefield in Tikrit and were executed as a punishment, a claim made by some Isis supporters on social media.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said she had lifted a moratorium on capital punishment and that, in particular, kidnappers should be "executed as soon as possible".

He was eventually executed as a traitor.

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.

A cocktail should look as sharply executed as it tastes.

Don't consider it as a punishment.

However, a potential problem in punishment is that there is a cost in executing punishment, which makes punishment an altruistic act.

It was never intended as a punishment.

"You know and I know that prison as a punishment is a hard punishment.

Food supplies have been cut off as a punishment.

While they are sent here as a punishment, the regime in the unit is not part of that punishment.