Sentence examples for it's punishing from inspiring English sources

Twitter's core app growth is clearly stalling a bit — and it's punishing the company, with its stock down almost 35% in the past year, and plenty of quarterly misses to go along with it.

"It's punishing the poor," says Hassan Essam, who has worked at Hamdy's in north London for almost 25 years.

"It's punishing people and exerting control.

But you do have to love it, because it's punishing.

The worst part is the Kafkaesque twist – it won't tell you why it's punishing you; the guilty need not be told their crimes.

"Sending an asylum seeker back to a country like Syria, where they are very likely to be killed or seriously injured, is not protecting anyone, it's punishing the very people we should be doing our best to protect," said Amnesty's refugee co-ordinator Dr Graham Thom.

When a kid snatches an old lady's purse, it's punished as a crime.

Instead, it's punished.

In others, it's punished socially, and mob justice can end a life with little to no consequence.

At the time, Treasury said it was punishing Russia for its aggressive foreign policy, including subverting foreign democracies.

It was punishing, but exhilarating.