Sentence examples for unpunished from inspiring English sources

It is not just when settler violence against Palestinians goes unpunished.

They are leaving the innocent unprotected and the guilty unpunished.

Putin got away unpunished with a similar campaign in Georgia in 2008.

Cantona was sent off on Wednesday for a foul far less serious than the offence committed by Aston Villa's goalkeeper Mark Bosnich on Tottenham's Jurgen Klinsmann the same evening, which left the German concussed and which went entirely unpunished.

Of course a football game is full of contentious incidents – every time a foul is awarded or a challenge goes unpunished there are usually people arguing that the decision was incorrect – but the point of appeals is to clear up potentially game-changing decisions, fouls leading to goals, for example, or situations where a manager might want to challenge a red card.

But in any case there is clearly a major difference between a player smashing his elbow into an opponent's face and going unpunished and a referee missing a handball.

Annual rankings from the Committee to Protect Journalist published earlier this year named Syria as the deadliest place in the world to practise journalism and in 2013, it joined a list of countries where the murder of journalists was likely to go unpunished, for the first time.

Sadly, bringing politics into disrepute, which is blamed for the irresistible rise of political disillusionment – and of which the belief that politicians are habitually lying is a basic ingredient – goes unpunished in too many ways to single out this case from the rest.

If attacks on journalists go unpunished, what message does this send to the public and the perpetrators of such crimes?

The CIA officials who destroyed videotapes of waterboarding were left unpunished, and all attempts at bringing these acts into a courtroom were blocked by claims of national secrets.

Sexual violence against women remains pervasive and often unpunished.