Sentence examples for punishment whether from inspiring English sources

She was, after all, A Woman Artist, a thing unheard of, eternally esoteric and destined for punishment, whether before or after the event.

Bob Herbert's March 8 column about the last-minute postponement of the execution of Antonio Richardson, who is brain-damaged and mentally retarded, brings to mind a point regarding capital punishment, whether the person to be executed is mentally competent or not.

At a subsequent press conference, Rice accepted his punishment and said: "I never planned on appealing any punishment, whether it was two games, four games, six games, I was going to own my actions and be a man about it and take whatever was given to me".

"The punishment was the punishment and I never planned on appealing any punishment, whether it was two games, four games, six games, I was going to own my actions and be a man about it and take whatever was given to me".

We were then told that each group had to decide its position on the following issues: whether Arabs should allow for U.S. military bases to be set up on their land; whether to allow capital punishment; whether Islamic figures could be criticized in the media; and take a stand on tradition versus modernity.

According to the transcript, the questionnaire asked prospective jurors their opinions about whether cooperating witnesses involved in plea agreements should receive reduced punishment; whether the federal government is tough enough on people accused of "lying in interviews"; and whether they believe defense lawyers are "less truthful than prosecuting attorneys".

Employers are increasingly trying to lower health care costs by using incentives to persuade workers to make better lifestyle choices, a new survey shows, but what remains less clear is whether a reward is better than a punishment — or whether the programs work at all.

Opponents of the death penalty are focusing on Texas as they try to shift the debate about capital punishment from whether it is moral and effective to whether the trial-by-jury foundation of the American judicial system itself is flawed.

(Determining how to handle the death penalty, however determining whether it can ever be a proportional punishment and whether it is ruled out as cruel or degrading is a particularly thorny problem, beyond the scope of this entry. For a brief survey of the difficulty, see Edmundson 2002).

They have debated whether a first offense should bring counseling or punishment and whether they can best deter drug use through education or testing.

But we send people for such long periods of time and I'm not sure whether we're doing that because we feel that's the appropriate punishment, or whether we feel like this is what it's going to take to rehabilitate someone, although of course there's very little energy put into that.