"punishing power" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It refers to the ability or authority to impose punishment on someone or something. It can be used in a variety of contexts, such as discussing a government's use of punishment as a means of control, or describing a person's ability to inflict punishment on others. Example: The dictator's punishing power was feared by all who opposed him. This sentence implies that the dictator had the ability to impose severe punishment on anyone who challenged his authority.
He has both punishing power and slippery power, which is an unusual combination for a player.
In part to take advantage of the underrated power of Ahmad Bradshaw and punishing power of Brandon Jacobs, the Giants employed more six-man lines than any team in the N.F.C. last season.
Using blinding speed, elusive defense and punishing power, Zab Judah demolished Jan Bergman to win the International Boxing Federation junior welterweight championship last night at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn.
But torture in history represents a kind of "justice", which exists in the realm of extracting confessions for unjustified purposes, or as a manifestation of a punishing power.
His favourite hook shot propelled the ball "with such unhurried ease that the punishing power of the stroke was revealed only in the way the ball smacked against the fence".
While Davis likes to play center, where he's a bit undersized, it can be difficult against some of the more punishing power players in the league.
Here, in all its closely watched, readily punished, power-stripped ignominy, is some of the worst of contemporary work.
In a speech in Portland, Ore., he explained that it could be a "birch rod in the cupboard," which the citizenry could use to punish private power companies that were gouging the public or not providing good service.
Elihu Root, a former Secretary of War and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, told a Carnegie Hall audience on September 17 that the strike was an attack on constitutional government because it represented "the passing of power to enforce laws, the power to punish crime, the power to maintain order from the whole people of the United States" to the 3% of the population represented by the AFL.
After all, Teachout made corruption Cuomo's insistence on playing the inside game, hoarding power, punishing his enemies, and tapping financial capital to power his neoliberal agenda the only issue in the race.
But life in Cuba is punishing: food and power shortages, endless queuing, grinding poverty and constant supervision by secret policemen and Communist party informers - in short, tropical Stalinism.
