Sentence examples for usually punished from inspiring English sources

The cruel ones are usually punished.

"BEFORE 1997 they usually punished us by tearing down our houses for breaching the one-child policy…After 2000 they began to confiscate our children".

When wrong is committed, it is usually punished, thus fulfilling Miss Prism's summation in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), to the effect that in a novel the good characters end up happily and the bad characters unhappily: "that is why it is called fiction".

If detected by a client, front-running is usually punished by the removal of his business elsewhere; but it is seldom reported to a regulator.In the heady days of the bull market, nobody bothered much about all this, because all were making money.

Significantly, England are charging Jadeja with only a level-two offence, which is usually punished by a fine rather than a suspension, and they will be hoping the judicial commissioner to be appointed by the ICC agrees with their view of the severity of the incident.

While solicitation is illegal, men who visit prostitutes are not usually punished, whereas prostitutes rounded up in periodic sweeps by police can be sent to education-through-labour camps for up to two years.Last week, a video of a policeman interviewing naked girls in a raid on a Beijing health club suspected of operating as a brothel provoked over 73,000 comments on a Chinese website.

Governments usually punish extortionists in the real world, too.

Sanctions usually punish the poorest who most need social services.

Yet the appearance of startling ruthlessness is deceptive, as it is a younger self and his or her efforts that are usually being punished, whether by criticism or self-parody.

Instead of being kicked out, players who make a mistake are usually playfully punished (for example, drumming on the back), and the game is resumed.

The solution is usually to punish the student.