Sentence examples for usual punishment from inspiring English sources

This was a highly symbolic act: blinding was the usual punishment usually meted out to heretics and rebels, or to deposed emperors and other political rivals to prevent them from becoming a threat.

Cruel, but usual, punishment.

Fines and sentences of imprisonment were the usual punishment.

The usual punishment for being a mohareb in the Islamic Republic is execution.

This was the usual punishment for thieves and squealers in Venezuela's prisons, and the custom has crept into Caracas's gangster-run barrios.

In 2009 I was arrested for wearing trousers under restrictive decency laws, but I refused to be flogged, the usual punishment for this "crime".

Rosa Parks and her husband suffered the usual punishments for black protest: hate calls, death threats and loss of employment.

The inflated AGI then entitles the government to apply all of the usual punishments.

If it's fake or just a skin, well, it's the usual CrunchGear punishment for me: forty lashes with a wet noodle.

It is said that BNP Paribas put up backs across the Atlantic by refusing to admit wrongdoing faster, and that impatience with the bank may have contributed to a harsher-than-usual proposed punishment.

Let's look at the example of a young girl who came to my office hysterically tied up in knots with her father reciting all of the usual oncoming punishments.