Sentence examples for punishment down from inspiring English sources

Sixty-three percent of Americans continue to support capital punishment, down just one percentage point from six years ago.

A Gallup poll this spring showed that 65percentt of Americans supported capital punishment, down from about 80percentt in 1994.

According to a Gallup Poll published in Time magazine, 63percentt of Americans support capital punishment, down from 80percentt in 1994, when 16 percent opposed it; today opposition to the death sentence has doubled to 33percentt.

As of early 2014, 19 American states allowed teachers and caregivers to spank their kids and administer other forms of corporal punishment, down from 45 in 1980 and 22 in 2004.

I thought maybe he had taken too much punishment down the years, that all of it had taken its toll.

In October 2013, 60percentt of Americans favored capital punishment, down 20-percent from 1994.

When this didn't seem to tame Ted, he reversed the punishment, pulling down his pants, lying down, and ordering his son to administer the lashings.

The punishment handed down to Tindall is unprecedented.

Maybe at least a touch of soothing helps all the punishment go down more easily.

The severity of the punishment handed down to the journalists responsible for Xi Jinping's unexpected "resignation" remains unclear.

The severity of his punishment, handed down two years later, caused an international outcry and prompted more than a million people to sign an Amnesty International petition calling for his release.