Sentence examples for punishment points from inspiring English sources

To test the idea that C.U. children may be less responsive to reward and punishment than the average child, Waschbusch established a system in which kids were awarded points for behaving well and docked points for acting out, and then he modified it to include weeks where either the reward (points earned) or the punishment (points lost) were augmented.

In the unobserved condition, punishment was implemented but participants did not have information about their punishment points until the end of the experiment.

In the observed condition participants received the feedback on how many punishment points did they get after each game, throughout the experiment.

In a peer-punishment PGG experiment, Fudenberg and Pathak [ 19] demonstrated that individuals contributed more in an 'observed' punishment condition (i.e. after each game participants were informed about the punishment points they received), than in an 'unobserved' punishment condition (i.e. all punishment points were revealed at the end of the experiment).

Advocates of the "lock-them-up" school of punishment point out that as prison numbers have risen, so recorded crime has fallen by nearly a fifth (see chart).The contrary view that excessive use of imprisonment has been ineffective, costly and damaging is expressed in a report published recently by a penal-reform group, the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders.

While many in the international athletics world feel that the apparent level of state collusion means only a full ban can be suitable punishment, Russia points to the huge blow this will be to those clean Russian athletes.

The ordeal amounted to a simple three-game punishment, a point Thomas eventually conceded.

Beitar have the worst disciplinary record in Israel's Premier League and over the past decade have faced about two dozen hearings and received various punishments, including points deductions, fines and matches behind closed doors.

Brown would not say if Connolly should face retrospective punishment but pointed back to Celtic midfielder Derk Boerrigter's two-match ban for simulation at the start of the season.

Opponents of capital punishment often point out, quite rightly, that the execution of a murderer does nothing to bring the victim of murder back to life and, in that sense, does nothing to restore a just order.

Capital punishment, he pointed out, is a system that makes everyone who votes for it an executioner.