Sentence examples for given punishments from inspiring English sources

Nearly 20 other people were given punishments of varying degrees, including one suspended death sentence.

Conversely, given punishments are gradually reduced if the router stops using more than its allocated resources.

Yet we expect legislators, voters and jurors to make reasoned judgments about how to punish and whether a given punishment is appropriate when the vast majority have no way of knowing what various punishments actually entail.

Earlier this year, the offenders were given punishment that included reduction in rank and forfeiture of pay -- but not imprisonment.

"If found in any part of the country, those doing such activities would be given punishment according to sharia," it said.

ST. LOUIS — When judges here sentence convicted criminals, a new and unusual variable is available for them to consider: what a given punishment will cost the State of Missouri.

He starts with two sound premises: (a) that some experience more suffering with a given punishment than others, and (b) that such differences must be justified.

As a result, every penalty schedule purporting to incorporate retributive principles exclusively fails to the extent that any given punishment cannot be justified by those principles alone.

Acts of punitive deprivation must be imposed on each convicted offender without the comfort of believing, much less knowing, that the purposes for which the system of punishment was designed and maintained will really be advanced by inflicting a given punishment.

If your parents give punishments to your sibling, they may stop.

Scolding and giving punishments are major no-nos when it comes to potty training.