Sentence examples for surely punishment from inspiring English sources

Eighteen years, 11 of them in solitary confinement, is surely punishment enough, even for the most vindictive of his enemies.

Going by recent precedents it might even have been a red card but a yellow was surely punishment enough.

It wasn't enough time, and I felt, as the manuscript grew, that, in telling this family story, I was doing something shameful, and that, surely, punishment was in store.

Surely a punishment, and such a punishment that it will serve as an example for the future".

He based his protagonist, Mahmoud, on a military ruler of Siwa whose banishment to the rebellious outpost by the British authorities was surely "a punishment not a promotion".

Surely any punishment should reflect an individual's knowing and provable culpability, not the number of deaths or a freak concurrence of events.

Certainly we need to know what has happened, certainly we need to know the reports of the UN inspectors but the goal is surely not punishment but rather reconciliation.

For the braggard and the big gob, surely this is punishment enough.

Mottke says this surely was a punishment from God. Zeinvel says he hopes he meets up with Mindle in Gehenna.

If an Iranian scientist came forward with firm evidence that Iran was secretly equipping itself with nuclear weapons this would be regarded as a brave act worthy of praise not punishment; surely Mordechai's identical action in relation to Israel's nuclear weapons should be regarded in a similar light?

When we were kids, Bunny Biblowitz counted apocalyptically toward 3, when the Lord's punishment would surely descend.