Sentence examples similar to punishment Break from inspiring English sources

Whether by bargaining for more food, mitigating punishment, breaking tools to avoid backbreaking labor or running away for a few days or for good, enslaved black Southerners rebelled against slavery.

Evidently, Kennedy and Breyer felt strongly enough about the issues of solitary confinement and capital punishment to break from that tradition.

Military officials vehemently denied the chairs were used as a form of punishment to break hunger strikes and insisted that their use was "safe," "humane," and "legal" — three of the four words that make up Guantanamo's official motto. .

While there are still those in society who would like people sent to prison to be further punished, it is the deprivation of liberty that is the punishment for breaking the law: prison as punishment not prison for punishment.

Illegal immigrants deserve punishment for breaking a law.

But I am just asking for punishment of breaking the law".

Indeed, their readiness to accept punishment for breaking the law enhanced their actions.

Typical punishment for breaking visitation rules is 10 days of restriction and 10 days of extra duty, which I completed.

Some people associate economic security with labor unions (which there's not much historical punishment for breaking) and others with low (or high) taxes.

But accepting punishment for breaking a law one considers unjust has over time been a successful strategy for changing that law.

"I know that there is a punishment for breaking the law, but it won't happen again," said Ms. Chiesi, who wore a pink dress and matching pumps with her platinum-blond hair pulled back.