Sentence examples for punish to from inspiring English sources

A pluralistic communicative system, which gives weight to considerations of mercy as well as retribution or desert, would only punish to the extent that the punishment was justified (not to the extent that it was deserved) since mercy toward the offender might recommend punishing her less than she deserves according to justice.

"Then there's the instinct to punish, to string them up, to kill.

Fighters like Rone are known as Tomato Cans, Ham-n-Eggers, Palookas -- fighters contenders punish to secure menacing records.

They may include the desire to punish, to gain revenge, to cause pain, to prove sexual prowess, and to control through fear.

For journeymen, whom all champions at some point must pass and punish to pad their records, transportation to bouts is rarely covered.

And with an outsized, unnecessarily large prison population, we need to ensure that incarceration is used to punish, to deter and to rehabilitate — not merely to warehouse and to forget.

Clark could be morbidly competitive and punishing to disloyal customers.

It was punishing to walk and punitive to play.

His working methods, to start with, were punishing to his dancers.

"Certainly he will be punished to a degree by the conviction itself".

Running a marathon is, of course, punishing to the body, causing muscle soreness and inflammation.