"immediate punishment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a punishment that is given or carried out right away, without any delay. Example sentence: In some schools, immediate punishment is used for students who break the rules, such as detention or extra homework assignments.
A central aspect of the many proposals being considered in the battle against drugs in racing is more meaningful — and immediate — punishment against repeat offenders like Dutrow.
The bad news is that the Assad regime, by escaping immediate punishment for its use of chemical weapons, lives on to fight another day.
One of the reasons the players agreed to marijuana testing was because the new policy emphasized confidentiality and treatment over immediate punishment.
The fear is not of immediate punishment but of finding that a few months after your Inquiry ends a journalist who has spoken out may find herself on a list of redundancies.
"A caution means that no immediate punishment is imposed, but the student is warned that if he or she were to be found guilty of another breach of discipline, the first breach should be taken into account and regarded as an aggravating circumstance when considering a sanction for the second offence".
The defender's vicious elbow to the face of Luis Enrique at the 1994 World Cup bloodied the shirt of the Spanish player, but he escaped immediate punishment from the referee as Italy won 2-1 to reach the semi-finals.
Adolescents often have extremely high rates of time discounting; in other words, they respond strongly to immediate punishments and rewards but do not adequately take into account the longer-term ramifications of their actions.
They either reversed rewards and punishments on the task such that good decks yielded higher immediate punishments but even greater delayed rewards, while risky decks gave off low immediate punishments and even lower future rewards, and in another condition increased the future disadvantages on risky decks.
Harmful alcohol users without a history of dependence also demonstrated impaired inhibition of prepotent responses to reward in the presence of immediate monetary punishment for failure in a monetary incentive go/no go task (17).
CBG's immediate rewards and punishments, punishments larger than rewards, and escalating frequency of punishments also may have limited risk-taking.
This one-shot game is designed to measure the altruism behavior of the dictator, which is not directly associated with other plausible factors such as kinship, reciprocity, reputation, or the immediate threat of punishment [8].
