Sentence examples for punishment acts from inspiring English sources

Campaigners accused Japan of resisting the global trend towards the abolition of the death penalty in the mistaken belief that the punishment acts as a deterrent.

"We will swiftly respond to any punishment, acts of revenge or sanctions that violate our national interest by taking strong measures, including a full-scale war," the commission said in statement carried in the North's state-run media.

Florida's electric chair is now before the Supreme Court; it has set some inmates on fire, and last year took much too long to kill a 300-pound man, Allen Lee Davis, who was shown contorting and bleeding in pictures that were released to the world on the Internet.There is little evidence that capital punishment acts as an effective deterrent to violent crime.

However, Kelkar adds that another reason for making Ahalya immortal in scripture could be that her punishment acts as a warning and deterrent to women.

Could a pay-after-you-go plan of punishment act as a deterrent to N.C.A.A. violators?

Further Questions for Discussion: –Does capital punishment act as a deterrent to criminals?

Although the Domestic Violence and Punishment Act 2066 [ 26] has been enacted, these results suggest that equal attention needs to be given to activities improving women's autonomy.

Although the Domestic Violence and Punishment Act 2066 has been enacted, equal attention needs to be given to increasing women's autonomy and activities that encourage inter-spousal communication.

The Education sector is also engaging stakeholders to solicit views on alternative forms of discipline in the Government's plan to abolish corporal punishment in schools which is sanctioned in the Education Corporal Punishment Act of 1979.

Brisbane Roar coach John Aloisi has called for the A-League to bring back retrospective punishment for acts of simulation.

The degree of state power that has enabled such extensive and rapidly executed feats of urban planning has also led to policies that appear to the rest of the world as draconian, such as corporal punishment for acts of vandalism, a ban on the importation of chewing gum, urine detectors installed in elevators, and expression-limiting laws of the kind that put Amos Yee on trial.