Sentence examples for punishment amounts from inspiring English sources

And what I'm presenting to you in the class is a pretty bread-and-butter Anglo-American picture of what punishment amounts to.

Each year, prodded by child safety advocates, state legislatures debate whether corporal punishment amounts to an archaic form of child abuse or an effective means of discipline.

The season was already close to its end, so the punishment amounts to a relatively minor rebuke for the many male soccer players who have contributed to this codified team activity of demeaning their female counterparts over the last four years.

It would mean merely that the courts of Louisiana must examine the facts, both as to the actual nature of the punishment already inflicted and that proposed to be inflicted, and, if the proposed punishment amounts to a violation of due process of law under the Constitution of the United States, then the State must find some means of disposing of this case that will not violate that Constitution.

The Army said Colonel Saleh's punishment amounted to about $1,000 below that limit.

In one case, inflicting cuts and bruises on a child was deemed "excessive corporal punishment," amounting to neglect, the most basic and frequently charged form of child mistreatment.

"Regardless of how horrific the crime suffered by Ameneh Bahrami, being blinded with acid is a cruel and inhuman punishment amounting to torture and the Iranian authorities have a responsibility under international law to ensure it does not go ahead".

Although Wuterich ordered his squad to "shoot first and ask questions later," he was allowed to plead to a single count of negligent dereliction of duty, and his punishment amounted to only a reduction in rank and a pay cut.

But because the punishment was handed down the last week of classes before spring finals, and the university gave the student 72 hours to leave campus, his punishment amounted to a one-day suspension, said the victim of the attack, a rising junior at Yale.

In February, a United Nations report concluded that North Korea systematically employed violence and punishments, amounting to a gross violation of human rights violations.

Savicevic came armed with a sheet of paper recording punishments amounting to 90,000 Euros for a variety of incidents in this stadium over the last 17 months, from a pitch invasion during the drawn Euro 2012 qualifier with England to an incident where a chair was thrown at an opposing Polish player during a group match.