Shortly after the Persian Gulf War, Kuwaitis then set about punishing the P.L.O. for its support of Hussein — cutting off financial sponsorship, expelling hundreds of thousands of Palestinian workers and slaughtering thousands.
We've been here before, remember, but the government seem set on punishing the people and leading the country into the sea.
Given the realities of a bleak employment picture, Americans are unhappy — and they're set to punish those in office.
Reus looked set to punish Spurs only for the Belgian to stretch into a perfectly timed sliding challenge.
But now I see that the squad flew to Dublin for a party (Harry Redknapp set to punish Robbie Keane and Spurs partygoers, Sport, 20 December).
Some traditional social democrat voters in Germany, Italy and Greece seem set to punish their governments for joining the bombing of Kosovo by voting for the ex-communist left.
But most polls show that voters are set to punish the administration for that when they elect members to the 167-seat national assembly, by giving the opposition a majority in parliament.
The 2016 Royal Rumble will be the first in its 28-year history that the WWE World Heavyweight championship will be defended in the 30-man over-the-top-rope itself, with Vince McMahon set to punish current title-holder Roman Reigns for his recent attacks on the WWE chairman.
As the audience files slowly into La Boite's theatre, transformed into a boxing ring for the debut of Prize Fighter, the cast trains to pumping music: some spar gently, some do punishing sets of push-ups, others whack the punching bag.
Iannucci's attempt to reproduce that dynamic on the set was punishing for the actors, Roche added: "You could see, in their eyes, the look of panic.
