Sentence examples for point of punishment from inspiring English sources

The music is synthetic and hits hard, almost to the point of punishment.

Founded in 1995, Dogfish is at the forefront of the so-called extreme beer movement, specializing in incredibly hoppy beers that taste bitter almost to the point of punishment.

From a rule-consequentialist point of view, the main point of punishment is to deter certain kinds of act.

Perhaps rule-consequentialism can admit that another point of punishment is to appease the primitive lust for revenge on the part of victims of such acts and their family and friends.

If we do forget our actions – as people do on occasion – what's the point of punishing us? (Actually, there may be a point, depending on which theory of punishment one supports).

Public use of the Cherokee language and, indeed, any indigenous language was discouraged to the point of physical punishment in government-run Indian boarding schools, with the result of a rapid decline of native speakers.

And of course, the absence of liberty, the real point of the punishment.

That being said, the problem may come to the point of needing punishment.

In the first place, Hume asks, what is the point or purpose of punishment in a future state?

Surviving now in chaos, at what point does the threat of punishment stop them committing a crime?

We will die, but we are not doomed to unusual daily punishment, & on that corne it seemed to her that life is circumscribed to the point of unusual daily punishment.