Sentence examples for obvious punishment from inspiring English sources

An obvious punishment would have been to throw Harlequins out of the 2009-10 Heineken Cup.

The danger, say friends who feel Deutch has been treated unfairly, is that the obvious punishment has already been imposed: loss of his clearances.

A report from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development shows that, in most of the region, only minorities of voters, and sometimes not even a plurality, support both a democracy and a market economy (many choose the "don't care" option instead).Nor is there any obvious punishment for a failure to reform.

They allow the world around them to dictate their lives - they follow the obvious rewards, punishments, and fears to define them.

If U.S. punishment is obvious or a matter of enforcing norms, then more proof is needed.

This tactic is the most obvious one for avoiding punishment, but it will not work repeatedly on a single rule you have broken, nor will it work if you are disingenuous about it.

And while the most obvious alternative - retrospective punishments - has its merits, the Champions League final showed up a major flaw.

The problem — besides the obvious issue of assigning punishments to people who might not even be convicted of crimes — is that they are thinking up untested responses on a case-by-case basis.

This is partly because the public's love for politicians often deteriorates, and partly a punishment for his obvious interest in becoming President, but it mostly has to do with Louisiana's perpetual economic weakness.

Writer and dance music academic Luis-Manuel Garcia noted following the Ten Walls fiasco a few weeks ago: "Don't just be satisfied with the social/professional punishment of one obvious bigot in a world full of silent exclusions and micro-aggressions.

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