Sentence examples for punishing point from inspiring English sources

Murray saves the first but can't do anything about the second after a punishing point.

It can be sampled at Park Circle, the southwest corner of Prospect Park in Brooklyn : an active traffic circle that has recently been turned into an obstacle course by new concrete islands and tight constraints that shunt cars into choked channels, almost as if rigidity and awkwardness were the punishing point, at least for drivers.

Aides to Ms. Quinn denied having used committee assignments to reward or punish, pointing to many cases where the speaker gave prominent chairmanships to opponents of the change.

As he heads for the backwoods of Connecticut to defend the WBC title he won in what most observers regard as the British fight of the year, a punishing points win over the undefeated Canadian Jean Pascal in Nottingham last December, Froch is a seething bag of anger.

State regulators declined to punish The Point, saying in their report that there was "insufficient" evidence that the facility had "clear knowledge" Ian would be a danger to other residents.

:-) Quite a lot of readers agreed that there's no point punishing yourself for the sake of finishing something, but judgeDAmNation took the conversation in a different direction: Are there are any books that people have enjoyed reading but still not finished for whatever reason?

Border security agents have been punished for pointing out that the border is inadequately monitored, and airport baggage-handlers and security people for pointing to weaknesses in the security system.

Second serves and short balls were punished; big points were seized; arms and trophies were raised.

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).

WHAT Jason Kidd began with 3-point jabs, he saved by absorbing punishing blows to his point guard's body.

Stakhovsky won 76 percent of his first-serve points by punishing Federer's backhand return and finishing points quickly at the net.