Sentence examples for to avoid being punished from inspiring English sources

Wasps benefited from solid ground for the series of five scrums that followed, but not enough to avoid being punished: twice by free-kicks, twice by penalties.

One Muslim born in Macedonia said she opted for the operation to avoid being punished by her father after an eight-year relationship with her boyfriend.

After consulting with a lawyer, she decided to take her chances rather than pay for a class she could not afford, to avoid being punished for a crime she said she did not commit.

Lawyers for the smokers have said the tobacco companies are merely trying to use slick public relations to avoid being punished in the courts and fought to prevent testimony by the executives.

He must be "good" not only in order to please his parents and not only to avoid being punished by them; behind their authority stands another, nameless and impersonal, infinitely harder to please, and bottomlessly cruel.

The Pritzkers, who were co-owners of the bank with the New York real estate developer Alvin Dworman, agreed to pay a record $460 million to the federal government last December to avoid being punished for their role in the bank's collapse.

It's not right that if you're rich enough, you can avoid being punished".

Moreover, unlike a person, as Nace points out, a corporation can do the Houdini disappear and reappear in another body with a new name and avoid being punished.

Coke was apparently happy at Eton, and was excellent at field sports; on one occasion 70 snipes he had killed were found in his room, and on another he narrowly avoiding being punished for shooting a pheasant in Windsor Park.

And how will that affect their support for the Taliban to avoid being killed or severely punished?

Wolf et al. also believe that the clinicians who work in a system of blaming and punishing do not report errors due to the fear of being punished.