Sentence examples for lawless punishment from inspiring English sources
And while I pursue my studies, I hope that the Chinese government and the Communist Party will conduct a thorough investigation of the lawless punishment inflicted on me and my family over the past seven years.
"While I pursue my studies, I hope that the Chinese government and the Communist Party will conduct a thorough investigation of the lawless punishment inflicted on me and my family over the past seven years," Chen wrote.
On May 29 , 2012 Chen published an editorial in the New York Times criticizing the Chinese government and the Communist Party for the "lawless punishment inflicted on (himself) and (his) family over the past seven years".
The native was not always condemned to menial chores; he was once treated as a member of the family, until something he did or rather wanted to do — an impulse, a violation of the rules, a lawless desire — called down heavy punishments upon his head.
Since then, the country has been broken in two, with the lawless north slipping into a hell of medieval-era punishments like flogging, stoning, and even, reportedly, amputations, all dictated by a severe form of Sharia law practiced by the Islamist radicals who now dominate the area.
The Romans' public form of religion stimulated magistrates to be scrupulous and dutiful, Polybius proposed, while the fickle, lawless masses remained restrained by their fear of gods and punishment in the afterlife.
The expected cost of lawless behaviour is the product of two things: the chance of being caught and the severity of the punishment if caught.
By such examples, by instances of the perpetrators of such acts going unpunished, the lawless in spirit, are encouraged to become lawless in practice; and having been used to no restraint, but dread of punishment, they thus become, absolutely unrestrained.
"Violent, savage, lawless?
4 2 LAWLESS, by Nora Roberts.
