Sentence examples for our punishments from inspiring English sources

He receives our blows, our punishments, our disdain.

She wants nothing less than for her readers, and her nation, utterly to rethink bullying: to deal with it more effectively by acknowledging its complexity; to narrow our definitions and refine our punishments; to support the victims and encourage better behavior — while, by the way, making our laws and media coverage smarter.

Instead of dismissing this point of view as backward and barbaric, criminal justice reformers should try to harness it, by pointing out that too often our punishments don't fit the crime — that sentences for many drug crimes are disproportionate to the offenses, for instance, or that rape and sexual assault have become an implicit part of many prison terms.

"We're not trying to sneak out of our responsibilities or sneak out of our punishments.

He added: "I think there may be opportunities, possibly through the new criminal justice and sentencing legislation to make sure we are better at confiscating things from people when they commit crimes because we have got to look at all the ways we can of making sure our punishments are robust".

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy summed it up best when he said, "Our resources are misspent, our punishments too severe, our sentences too loaded".

"Our punishment is very minimal.

They require our help more than our punishment.

"It's our punishment," Susan said, "to be here".

It's time to stop our punishment beatings.

"We need to be stronger in our punishment".