Sentence examples for punishment of wrongdoing from inspiring English sources

"Justice, for me," says one, "is defined by the punishment of wrongdoing".

We must also ask how far we want government to see into our private lives, even in the prevention and punishment of genuine wrongdoing.

This is one reason why neither the regulation of firms nor their punishment for wrongdoing is consistent.

Harding hesitated and said the punishment for wrongdoing had to be proportionate.

But this does not mean that students can escape punishment for wrongdoing.

The eyeless figure would have been interpreted as a man who had suffered punishment for wrongdoing or fighting.

This prohibits both punishing those not guilty of wrongdoing (who deserve no punishment), and punishing the guilty more than they deserve (i.e., inflicting disproportional punishment).

It was not punishment but the acknowledgment of wrongdoing that marked the beginning of justice in that country, and it seemed to work for many of those who had suffered grievously under apartheid.

This mercenary is also a "pansexual" sybarite, a brutal cynic, and someone who believes the appropriate punishment for most types of wrongdoing is death (unlucky in love? First kidnap your rival, then kybosh him).

"They spread the news quickly and told the family that his diagnosis was the result of wrongdoing, a righteous punishment," Smith said.

Substantiated cases of wrongdoing can bring little punishment from regulators.