Sentence examples for it a punishment from inspiring English sources

Was it a punishment?

Their leader in parliament, Halbe Zijlstra, has attacked the wealth-tax idea, calling it a "punishment for good behaviour".

The chancellor called it "illustrative" but dozens of his own MPs labelled it a "punishment budget" and vowed to vote against it.

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"I don't know why it was done," he said, "but it seems like it was a punishment, a way of showing the inmates who is in charge".

The procedures were painful, but his wife stated afterwards that "it was a punishment, but I never was so happy in all my life".

It's a punishment and it starts the negative thinking train rolling down the tracks.

"It makes things tough but it is a punishment for clubs," he said.

"Some people on the outside look at it as a punishment but the team are comfortable with it and it is all done with them in mind".

"It was a punishment of sorts, and now he is avoiding it".

"It is a collective punishment against riders, which is wrong, and it is a punishment of riders who had nothing to do with the Astana team last year".