Sentence examples for punish for from inspiring English sources

So there's no one to punish for stealing the horses.

505, 510: 'The power to punish for contempts is inherent in all courts.

The focus is forward—to prevent future violations, not punish for past ones.

It is no more the duty or within the power of the United States to punish for a conspiracy to falsely imprison or murder within a State, than it would be to punish for false imprisonment or murder itself.

253, 257: 'The power to punish for contempt is inherent in the nature and constitution of a court.

268 of the Judicial Code, 1 so as to subject petitioner to the District Court's power to punish for contempt.

505, this court speaks in the following language: 'The power to punish for contempts is inherent in all courts.

The Constitution, Roberts said, "is not designed to punish for the past; its purpose is to ensure a better future".

The power to punish for contempt can entail the sanction of direct imprisonment of the offender by the offended house.

So is a resolution to break up the banks that Congress bailed out – and didn't punish for their sins.

The real question is whom a disgruntled electorate will choose to punish for what they see as a fiasco.