Sentence examples for personal punishment from inspiring English sources

Apparently, the admission of guilt in this context does absolve the player from personal punishment but only if he comes clean early enough, naturally.

The patients' responses to these tests were about the same as those that would have been expected from a ten-year-old child: that is, they appeared to be motivated exclusively by a desire to avoid personal punishment.

Lucas committed a "little personal crime" and thus gets personal punishment.

It's done as a personal punishment, to release the pain inside by experiencing pain on the outside.

He had urged Saigō, in the words of Ernest Satow, "that severity towards Keiki [Yoshinobu] or his supporters, especially in the way of personal punishment, would injure the reputation of the new government in the opinion of European Powers".

I adopt a loose form of asceticism when I'm locked up in which I half-ass torture myself through an unbonerable diet and rigorous physical training as my personal punishment for being a fuckin' douchebag and getting caught.

Only very personal punishments — freezing their foreign bank accounts and denying visas — will make them recalculate their self-interest.

Third, there is a sense of impunity, of safety from personal injury and punishment so long as the individual is on the side of the crowd.

I do not feel that this constituted hazing because the soldier was never berated with personal attacks, and the punishment lasted only for a few minutes and substituted for physical training.

They clashed over the university's shareholdings in South African companies, too, and it was widely assumed that the decision not to grant Higgs a personal chair was his punishment for publicly challenging the principal.

For the prosecution, the questioning provided a chance to remove jurors whose personal opposition to capital punishment might make it impossible for them to impose the death penalty, were Mr. Muhammad to be found guilty.