Sentence examples for punishment given from inspiring English sources

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Many may view its exit as just punishment, given the way the French qualified for the World Cup.

However, campaigners criticised the punishment given to Kazim-Richards – a fine of £750 plus £620 court costs and a £75 victim surcharge – as insufficiently tough.

The sentence was more severe than many observers expected, and is much longer than any punishment given to any previous US government leaker.

Also on Thursday, Brazil's deputy attorney-general, Sandra Cureau, argued that the companies should be subject to "exemplary punishment" given their "negligence" over the accident.

Personally, I think this is a rather odd punishment, given that wearers of these shorts essentially wear that sign every day, ba boom boom tish.

Israel's sentence rivals the 24-year stretch handed to Enron's boss Jeffrey Skilling and the 25-year punishment given to the WorldCom fraudster Bernard Ebbers.

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This two-tier system of punishment gives new meaning to our notion of injustice.

The availability of punishments short of corporal and capital punishment gave courts far more discretion in handling evidence.

He personally oversaw the secret police that meted out punishment, giving many orders and even raping a woman himself four times.

Philippines' president-elect Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to reintroduce capital punishment, give security forces the power to "shoot-to-kill" criminals and offer cabinet posts to communists.

And if you think that's insufficient punishment, give them a television that only gets terrestrial, and all our newspapers everyday.

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