Sentence examples similar to overdue punishment from inspiring English sources
Thus a gross injustice was righted and a long-overdue punishment meted out.
Taking his punishment was long overdue, but for the first time in this situation, Braun made the right choice.
The British Horseracing Authority's renewed focus on education, remedial training and the constructive targeting of repeat offenders, rather than relying overtly on punishment, is long overdue – as is their inclination to take a lead.
The law of karma is as unforgiving in the realm of translation as in any other and I was overdue for a taste of my own punishment.
Tory MP Priti Patel said such a debate was long overdue and that she favoured restoring capital punishment "for the most serious and significant crimes" – a position echoed by party colleague Andrew Turner.
Third, while there's concern over police relations, an examination of how the poor are represented in our local courts and how judges are meting out punishment toward them is long overdue here in Sullivan County.
"The Florida Supreme Court's ruling that jury recommendations for the death penalty must be unanimous is a long overdue recognition of the state's fatally flawed capital punishment regime," Mary Anne Franks, a professor with the University of Miami School of Law, said in a statement Friday.
Participants in one focus group mentioned that the Deputy Principal gave a student a punishment for failing to complete an assignment that was overdue.
Change, punishment, tough love: all these things, it will seem, are long overdue.
After serving punishments that far exceeded the scope of their crimes, these fiery lasses embraced their overdue freedom.
