If it resorts to punishment raids without the best of reasons, and without the best of evidence, America risks finding itself increasingly friendless in truly important disputes, such as the one with Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Finding replacements for Stevens and Ginsberg will tilt and colour the dynamics of the supreme court as President Obama sees fit, and if he really does want the United States to "lead the world" he should be mindful that every western democratic legal jurisdiction has its own appalling crimes to deal with and that we have all managed to cope without resorting to capital punishment.
Parenting education is an important aspect of CAMP Bustamante and parents of the victims are taught how to resolve conflicts without resorting to physical punishment.
The Taliban took care of that problem by resorting to an ancient punishment prescribed by the Shariah, a compendium of Islamic laws: they pushed a wall on top of anyone found to be homosexual.
(DJN VIII.3.5, 3.15) Instead,a sovereign's resort to punishment should be guided by state interest (as, in the case of a parent, by the interests of the family: DJN VIII.3.10), which also determines the quantity and quality of punishment needed.
And when our child does something that really upsets us, we move into Dictator mode, resorting to bribes, threats or punishments to try to control our children's behavior.
An excess of alcohol led to scuffles, and ill-tempered captains resorted to corporal punishment.
Struggling to maintain classroom discipline, some of the country's 160,000 primary school teachers resort to corporal punishment.
In the Kalahari the !Kung do not resort to physical punishment; instead children are allowed to slap and insult their parents.
He resorted to corporal punishment, especially on every occasion when Neil asked "Why?" As a consequence Neil was, and remains, anti-authoritarian and benevolent.
