Sentence examples for punishment element from inspiring English sources

Norman Brennan, a spokesman for Mrs. Fergus, said: "There has to be a punishment element for such a crime, but all Denise sees is Venables and Thomspon being rewarded.

All leather articles need care and nourishment to successfully take the punishment the elements, dirt and seasons throw against them.

"There is no reason for punishment, since the elements of the alleged disciplinary violation have not materialized," the federation said in a statement late Sunday.

Deterrence theories are criticised for treating people as brutes not rational agents capable of responding to moral reasons because the deterrent element of punishment gives people a prudential reason (relating to the prospect of punishment), not a moral reason, to refrain from breaching the law.

Punitive damages "add an element of punishment to the plaintiff for conduct that was so outrageous," said Andrew Siben, a lawyer for Mr. Conlon.

Almost all community sentences will involve an element of punishment, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has announced.

In any other genre a game as difficult as this one would be called punishingly hard, but PGR4 lacks any element of punishment.

Promising less crime and less punishment, this approach includes elements that should appeal to liberals (it doesn't rely on draconian prison sentences) and to conservatives (it stresses individual choice and moral accountability).

The Texas Court of Appeals upheld Mr. Carmell's conviction on the four disputed counts, ruling that the application of the amended law was not an ex post facto violation because the amendment involved a procedural rule and did not "increase the punishment nor change the elements of the offense that the state must prove".

Nevertheless, punishment retains some retributive elements, conceptually and normatively.

The first element of his punishment was probably not deprivation or discomfort, but plain homesickness.