Sentence examples for first punishment from inspiring English sources

August 1998 The five suspects receive their first punishment.

My very first punishment was for waking up too early.

First, punishment, although it is often demeaning, brutal, psychologically debilitating and wildly disproportionate to the offense.

The action was the first punishment meted out under a 1984 city law intended to protect "whistle blowers," those who call attention to wrongdoing in city government.

But "First Punishment: Nurse Shuts Me in a Dark Room," is a hard-edged, driving toccata that reveals the nurse's ominous side.

That is always the first punishment – the Sri Lankan government appears to see the decision to leave illegally as evidence of their guilt of a past crime.

It is one of the first punishments to be levied under a tough law adopted in June to clamp down on street protests.

These were the first punishments meted out in connection with an embarrassing multibillion-dollar smuggling scandal in the port city of Xiamen.

Correction: May 5, 2004, Wednesday A note on the writers' whereabouts was omitted yesterday from the front-page article about the first punishments given to American military officers over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Iraq.

The rules, which also aim to promote youth development, were first mooted in 2009, and five years on the first punishments are set to be handed out.

Their first punishments were in-school suspensions: a day staring at the walls of a windowless room, no books allowed.