Any failure to report an act of bullying, any delay in reporting it, any inequity in its punishment can be interpreted as compliance in the bullying.
Penn State faced the threat of a four-year ban on playing football before the N.C.A.A. issued its punishment Monday for how it handled the Jerry Sandusky child molesting scandal, a university spokesman said.
It hopes to avoid a criminal indictment over its marketing of "abusive" tax shelters between 1996 and 2002.The question hanging over KPMG is not whether it is guilty, but what its punishment will be.
The official would not say what kinds of actions the military is considering, but defended the differential treatment by saying that the FBI had already exacted its punishment on Petraeus, but Broadwell hasn't been punished.
Instead of accepting its punishment, Barclays contested the ruling, saying it was "unsupportable" and that its trading was legitimate.The bank's belligerence is atypical: financial firms try to avoid open conflict with their regulators.
The SPD, remembering its punishment by voters the last time it cooperated in a grand coalition (2005-09), positself itself with new leaders (or repurposed old leaders) and keeps up its nouveau-leftist rhetoric.
No precedent is set and no guidance provided as to the limits of the law and the proportionality of the punishment.So even if BNP fully deserves its punishment, the legal system that meted it out is closer to an extortion racket than justice.
Its punishment: pay $650,000 and never do it again.
Its punishment was light, by American standards, because it co-operated with the investigation.
Those who were serious about practicing civil disobedience — people like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, or Thoreau — always taught that it was vital not to deny the crime or flee from its punishment, but to use that punishment as a demonstration of one's purpose.
Its punishment is unique.
