Sentence examples for inflicted punishment from inspiring English sources

Silence restriction and sign-wearing were the newest tactics in arbitrarily inflicted punishment.

Today, among various preliterate peoples the power of personal satire and ridicule is appalling; among the Asante (Ashanti) of West Africa, for example, ridicule is (or was recently) feared more than almost any other humanly inflicted punishment, and suicide is frequently resorted to as an escape from its terrors.

One by one, various characters (some, like Hephaestus, Oceanus and Io, present in Aeschylus's play, some not) confront Prometheus, until he too eventually speaks, bitterly defiant of the gods who have inflicted punishment upon him for his theft of fire.

Reading about his being delivered into the hands of sadists who inflicted punishment day after day and told him his case would never come to trial, you can begin to understand why the hunger strikers in Guantánamo feel they have no other recourse.

Reflecting the mood of growing fear and anger among many Druze a report by Syrian state-media outlet praised the killers of the wounded fighters as "young heroic Syrians" who had "inflicted punishment on them for their participation in aggression on the mother homeland Syria and its people".

Hold your pee for outrageous periods of time for added self-inflicted punishment.

There is something very Russian about this story of crime and self-inflicted punishment.

Super Hexagon, like many wonderful games, can be mistaken for both abstract art and self-inflicted punishment.

The Raid retains its cachet as the sport's biggest baddest mama, however, by managing to keep topping the self-inflicted punishment of its last race.

Depending on which of the four hypotheses one were to choose, our condition can be regarded as a divinely ordained exile and trial (the sent hypothesis), the consequence of sin conjoined with an almost immediately self-inflicted punishment (the voluntarist hypothesis), or as some kind of relatively natural habitat (the traducianist and creationist hypotheses).

It was hard to smile or converse with any other people, as the self-inflicted punishment seemed endless.