Sentence examples for punishment power from inspiring English sources

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The home secretary, Theresa May, reinforced the theme with her announcement of a new "pick a punishment" power for victims of anti-social behaviour and her promise that Conservative candidates in the first elections for police and crime commissioners to be held on 15 November will have a "laser-like focus on cutting crime".

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Jurisdiction is conferred by the minister of justice and may encompass any written law, but punishment powers are limited.

Made with formalist precision in every way, this story about a lone wolf of a boy being bullied at school evolves into a devastating dissection of crime and punishment, alienation, power and our complex relationship with animals.

Very few of the people commenting on the case had ever met either of the women in question, and yet their cases resonated with a broadly felt sense that a deeper set of unjust principles underlie the way that crime, punishment, and power are handled.

In the former passage Heraclitus is perhaps criticizing Anaximander for his view that cosmic justice consists of a punishment of powers that overstep their boundaries (Anaximander B1).

This kind of celebratory pardon, that marks the change in executives, as opposed to those based on meritorious consideration of a legal request for pardon based on changed circumstances or new evidence, is a fascinating reminder of the "old logic" of punishment, when the power to punish was an expression of personal sovereignty and its remission a sign of benevolence at the top.

Kerrigan said MartÛnez 's slight, 170-pound frame simply can't take the same kind of punishment as bigger power pitchers like Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling.

These proposals should lead to a beefed-up system with genuine punishments and the power to launch investigations".

Nor is it bad news that a local government cannot get away with high-handed collective punishment of its power-guzzling citizens.

But Chris Blackhurst, group content director at The Independent and London Evening Standard, was noticeably warmer about the initiative, saying that it "should lead to a beefed-up system with genuine punishments and the power to launch investigations".

Moses Finley proposed a set of criteria for different degrees of enslavement: : Right to own property : Authority over the work of another : Power of punishment over another : Legal rights and duties (liability to arrest and/or arbitrary punishment, or to litigate) : Familial rights and privileges (marriage, inheritance, etc).

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