Sentence examples for future punishments from inspiring English sources

If future punishments meant so little, their wildest threats were credible.

Puritans believed that expressions of thanks to God for their good fortune helped keep his future punishments at bay — a point that does not detract from the genuine appreciation they felt at privations' end.

Robertson said that future punishments would be "absolutely brutal" for any player breaching the betting rules.

As part of the Medicare program there have been incentives (and future punishments) for incorporating the ability to share healthcare information through health information exchanges.

I grew up in a Calvinist, punitive atmosphere – hell featured in the future, punishment in the present.

After the flood, God goes on and on about how to live and avoid future punishment, ending in a compact epilogue.

She said the NUJ wanted a "conscience clause" inserted into journalists' contracts allowing them to refuse "unethical" jobs without fear of future punishment.

Although the word najāt (Arabic: "salvation") is used only once in the Qurʾān (the holy book of Islam), the basic aim of Islam is salvation in the sense of escaping future punishment, which will be pronounced on sinners at the Last Judgment.

More patient or more risk averse individuals are likely to place a greater weight on the possibility of future punishment and future income losses from imprisonment.

Presenting evidence is not free it often points to intelligence sources and methods, and gives future attackers clues on how to avoid future punishment.

It has been suggested that serotonin is involved in processing and avoiding negative outcomes (Rogers et al. 2003; Tanaka et al. 2009), predicting future punishment (Crockett et al. 2012), and loss aversion (Cools et al. 2008).