Sentence examples for mete from inspiring English sources

Now Lord Hall needs to convince the government not to mete out similarly severe treatment to the licence fee, a £145.50 ($250) levy on Britain's TV-owning households, when the charter that enshrines the BBC's funding comes up for renewal in 2016.

Posses and vigilantes, online and off, mete out rough justice, at best.

On December 3rd Nanfang Daily, a newspaper, reported Huang Xianyao, the chief of disciplinary inspection in Guangdong Province, as saying that a county and a district in the province will be chosen for a pilot project in disclosing assets—one of several such local experiments in recent years.Party and government disciplinary bodies already mete out a fair degree of punishment.

Created in 2002, the ICC is designed to mete out international justice, handling cases of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity that can't be tried on national soil.

As Tim Geithner wrote "trying to mete out punishment to perpetrators during a genuinely systemic crisis - by letting major firms fail or forcing senior creditors to take haircuts - can pour gasoline on the fire.

His great mistake, they say, is failing to see that, beyond the din the tea-partiers make, most Americans deeply resent the bailing-out of the bankers and the rest of the undeserving rich who led the economy to the abyss, and would rally to the president if he only found the courage to mete out the punishment these villains deserve.

The activists will probably not be able to mete out the same treatment to the young Murdoch, since his father controls 35.4% of BskyB, Europe's biggest satellite broadcaster.

By the time readers have finished this book, they may well think so too.Mrs Clinton, however, emerges as a political colossus compared with the punishment the authors mete out to Mrs Palin and Mr Edwards.

Their automatic rifles hung uselessly on their shoulders as they kicked up a cloud of red dust.The tribe took care to mete out justice evenly.

Israel's defenders say that the Palestinians are at least partially to blame for the impasse in the peace process, and they add that the BDS campaign singles out the world's lone Jewish state for criticism when plenty of other countries, including many of Israel's Arab neighbours, mete out more flagrant injustices.

Governments have been reluctant to criticise each other in public, let alone to mete out fines.The commission's suggested solution is to appoint itself as fire warden, firefighter and prosecutor.