Sentence examples for ongoing punishment from inspiring English sources

To its eternal shame the Labor Party supported the retroactive validating amendment, thereby ensuring ongoing punishment to those detained for longer than is reasonable.

Loane takes risks in skewering the hypocrisies and inconsistencies of the new Northern landscape: IRA men-turned-politicians continuing to protect past supporters; ongoing punishment violence and killings by splinter groups; and a public who feel powerless and betrayed by those who are supposed to be representing and protecting them.

If we believe the Pentagon theory that we are involved in a "Global War on Terror", then there is an ongoing war, and the punishment for disobeying orders is death.

They claim that the punishment is ongoing and that as recently as February the pair were formally taken off of another investigation they had partnered on.

(Think "brutal" is too harsh an adjective? Read the Goldstone Report about Israel's ongoing illegal and collective punishment of Gaza).

Seymour, in a black blazer over a red-checked shirt, said it was time to end "the cry-me-a-river, poor-me approach to youth justice", announcing that ACT would fine parents $50 for every day a child missed school; for families dependent on a benefit, income management would be the punishment for ongoing truancy.

Ignoring or permitting substance use may enable ongoing use, while overly harsh punishment may diminish opportunities for honest and meaningful conversations between parents and children.

The visceral power of ongoing anger, criticism, guilt and punishment from anyone - family, bosses, friends, partners - has lasting and grave repercussions.

After 25 years of ongoing, many and very hard punishments by the state of Israel, I wish the end to all punishments and my suffering, and wish the realisation of the basic human right to freedom".

It does, however, highlight ongoing questions about America's ferocious punishment of white-collar criminals.

But Koster said: "This court should not allow the mere pendency of ongoing federal litigation to effectively eliminate capital punishment in Missouri simply because the lawsuits outlast the department's supply of propofol".