While many owners may not have approved of how Sterling has run his team, none of them had anything to gain from the league investigating and possibly imposing punishments on one of their owns.
Those who refused to denounce the document brought severe punishments on themselves and their families.
A legal system that could impose savage punishments on a mere suspicion deterred all but the bravest.
John Reid imposes targets, penalties and punishments on hospitals and doctors regardless of local circumstances and needs.
Mr. Filipov is widely reported to favor legislation levying punishments on journalists and public figures who misuse the Russian tongue.
Officials said the Los Alamos NEST team was told of impending punishments on Tuesday, but they would provide no details.
The US military has continuously imposed pitifully light "punishments" on its soldiers even for the most heinous atrocities.
It also gave him some room to waive punishments, on a case-by-case basis, on companies in countries that are cooperating with efforts to isolate Iran.
When he was last President – from 1983 to 1985 – he imposed draconian punishments on state officials found guilty of corrupt practices.
Soon after Llewyn finishes the song, he steps into an alley and receives a bad beating, the first in many punishments on what proves a long, difficult road.
The ruling is a clear warning to other states that they, too, are barred from writing their own immigration laws, including imposing state punishments on the undocumented.
