These problems are shared by cities elsewhere: soaring crime, high dropout rates and low home ownership that leads to punishing property taxes imposed on a dwindling base.
There is certainly a widespread consensus among practitioners, judges, recruiters and academics that hourly billing leads to punishing work schedules, unhappy lawyers, ill-served clients, over-lawyered cases, perverse incentives and outright fraud.
Suburban counties that were once dependably Republican have trended more Democratic.. Republican leaders, however, are counting on anger over joblessness and disgust with corruption in Springfield to lead voters to punish Democrats.
Verónica Bayetti Flores of Feministing points out that this could lead traffickers to punish sex workers carrying condoms because they fear the practice will be used against them.
This lack of ideological discipline, Pence wrote, had led voters to punish the party for its "departure from principles".
Gerald B.H. Solomon, a conservative former congressman from New York who led crusades to punish flag burners and draft dodgers, died today at his home in Glens Falls, N.Y.
A social and economic crisis in Venezuela – which boasts the world's largest oil reserves but suffers from crippling inflation, widespread shortages and spiralling crime – led voters to punish the PSUV at the polls.
After Venezuelan voters gave the opposition an overwhelming victory and control of the national assembly, the 47-year-old housewife fears that a political power struggle may stifle any chance of fixing the chronic shortages, steep inflation and violent crime that led Venezuelans to punish the socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro in the elections.
Unemployment, economic stagnation and scandals around President Jacob Zuma led voters to punish the ANC, changing the outlook for national elections in 2019 and potentially emboldening Zuma's rivals within the ANC to challenge him.
Eighty-seven percent were worried that the cameras would lead to their bosses punishing them for minor infractions, while 44percentt said that they would be less willing to respond to calls if they were wearing cameras.
