Sentence examples for penalize someone from inspiring English sources

"It's inappropriate to penalize someone for hiring someone," Fehr said.

How fair is it to penalize someone for something over which he has no control?

On balance, it's better to reward someone who's undeserving than it is to penalize someone who did nothing wrong.

"I thought government was supposed to protect our property, not confiscate it, not penalize someone because they've been successful," said Senator Don Nickles, an Oklahoma Republican.

Breaking a house (as the old cases typically put it) absent an announcement would penalize someone who " 'did not know of the process, of which, if he had notice, it is to be presumed that he would obey it ….' " Wilson, 514 U. S., at 931 932 (quoting Semayne's Case, 5 Co. Rep. 91a, 91b, 77 Eng. Rep. 194, 195 196 (K. B. 1603)).

It's fair in a superficial way, but the purpose of the fine is to penalize someone for breaking the law.

"When the market penalizes someone in the short term, someone like K.K.R. can take a longer view," he said.

"You don't want to do something unfairly that penalizes someone who basically was acting in good faith," he said last month.

Complaints about dog waste remain common, but Sally Stephens, chairwoman of San Francisco Dog Owners Group, a nonprofit organization that advocates for responsible dog ownership, said she was surprised that the city had penalized someone who does not own a dog.

"Sometimes you have those discoveries and when you do, you need to take appropriate action," McNair said, "but you don't want to do something unfairly that penalizes someone who basically was acting in good faith.

For all his talk of accountability, I had a hard time finding any Bush adviser who could give me a concrete example of Bush penalizing someone who had failed to make proper use of delegated powers.