Sentence examples for punishments from inspiring English sources

The word "punishments" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to refer to things that are done by an authority to discipline or impose a penalty on someone for a wrongdoing. For example: The criminal was given a long list of punishments as a result of his crime.

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punishments

noun

Plural of punishment

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The nuns removed Christmas presents from some children as punishments, Smith said.

People found guilty of antisocial behaviour, vandalism, gambling or going to strip clubs will be placed on the list for two years and will face additional, unspecified punishments.

But the introduction of data-driven policies in 2007, backed by evidence-based probation and easing punishments for parole breaches, instantly proved a success.

"The rewards and punishments model shown in the report is an outmoded approach and there's nothing in there about properly dealing with the obvious issues of distress and breakdown in detention," she said.

However, Rangers could face even stronger punishment from any reconvened SFA appeal panel as the only stated punishments above the maximum £100,000 fine already administered are suspension or expulsion from participation in the game, ejection from the Scottish Cup or termination of membership.

Dr Sigman may well be right but rather intriguingly Völler proved the exception to the rule by refusing to retaliate in any way, aggressively or otherwise, bearing his multiple punishments and degradations at the hands of both referee and opponent with a stoicism that bordered on the truly heroic.

But I sometimes wonder whether, in 100 years' time, people will be as shocked by the length of sentences we are imposing as we are by some of the punishments of the 18th century".

"I passionately believe that by recasting the argument for action on climate change away from the language of threats and punishments and into positive, profit-making terms, we can have a much wider impact," he says.

Following a three-hour hearing at the court of session in Edinburgh, the judge accepted the club's petition for a judicial review as he ruled that the SFA could administer only the specific punishments stated in the rule relating to the disrepute charge.

Punishments for corruption are tougher, registers on property are better, checks on officials' expenditure are tighter.

As Heba Saleh and Simeon Kerr noted in the Financial Times last September: "Some of the features of Isis ideology, such as its hatred of Shia Muslims and application of strict punishments such as limb amputations, are shared with the purist Salafi thought that defines Saudi Wahhabism.

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