Sentence examples for were being penalised from inspiring English sources

Shapps told interviewers that he "absolutely" disagreed with the argument from the church coalition that the poor were being penalised.

Earlier, workers at warehouse in the UK said they were being penalised for taking sick days and made to work seven days a week.

Andrew Harrop, of the charity Age Concern and Help the Aged, said pensioners who had made national insurance contributions all their lives were being "penalised for retiring abroad".

Fiona Marriott, principal librarian for Luton Libraries, which has run an ebook service for 18 months, said libraries were being penalised en masse because a few local authorities "haven't played ball".

Last year, when Sir Thomas Legg was ordering MPs to repay money, ministers complained privately that they were being penalised for paying decent wages to their cleaners and gardeners.

A Sunday Times investigation found that temporary workers at the warehouse were being penalised for taking time off sick and put under pressure to hit targets for picking orders.

It means that companies that had already raised their energy efficiency before the EUETS came into being are being penalised.

"He is being penalised for being disabled.

And yet you are being penalised.

New borrowers are being penalised with high rates to compensate.

"We feel that we are being penalised by the government.