The phrase "imposing punishment" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the act of causing someone to receive a penalty or consequence for their actions. Example: The judge was responsible for imposing punishment on the convicted criminal.
And one of the answers is to punish the cheats.However, imposing punishment, too, is costly often, it seems, more costly than an individual's own interests could justify.
Court documents show that the judge agreed with Mr. Sussman about the district's failure to offer the volleyball player a chance to defend herself before imposing punishment, seeing it as violating her right to due process.
"The impermissibility of imposing punishment for that purpose is not avoided simply because Mrs. Bennett stood her ground and refused to accept the sentencing judge's offer not to enhance her husband's sentence if she capitulated," the opinion said.
The Social Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2015 removes financial support for forensic patients with a mental illness or disability, if they have been charged with a "serious criminal" offence, imposing punishment without charge or trial, contrary to the doctrine of separation of powers.
The second step is then to offer positive consequentialist reasons for imposing punishment on those who are eligible for it or liable to it: we should punish if and because this can be expected to produce sufficient consequential benefits to outweigh its undoubted costs.
In the United States, we have few qualms about imposing punishment on those convicted of a crime.
The British courts have not been nearly as severe in imposing punishments for financial crimes as their American counterparts, where sentences of 10 years or more for white-collar defendants have become almost commonplace.
While many owners may not have approved of how Sterling has run his team, none of them had anything to gain from the league investigating and possibly imposing punishments on one of their owns.
The ethics committee chairman, Claudio Sulser, however criticised the Sunday Times as "sensationalist" – despite basing the investigation on the paper's revelations and imposing punishments which surprised many observers with their severity.
Republicans often speak in terms of projecting "strength," being "feared," commanding "respect," and imposing punishments.
Politico reported in December that Exxon Mobil lobbying efforts successfully killed a bill that would have made Obama administration executive orders imposing punishments on Russia into law, making it harder for the next administration to undo the sanctions.
