Sentence examples for were punishment from inspiring English sources
noun
The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
The sanctions were punishment for Putin's Crimea annexation that spring and Russia's undercover invasion of eastern Ukraine.
I think the years he spent in a coma were punishment from God for the crimes he committed".
They became convinced that Somalia's years of bloodshed were punishment from God for straying from Islam, the friend said.
Judge McMillan said in an interview that his statements were true and that his legal problems were punishment by the courthouse establishment for his defeating an incumbent.
The bombs were punishment after the fact, part of a new strategy, known by Madeleine Albright's phrase, "to keep Saddam Hussein in his box".
Nalliah, who once said the Black Saturday bushfires were punishment for Victoria's decriminalisation of abortion, and whose church hosted the controversial World Congress of Families conference in August, says he is confident of securing the seat thanks to preference deals.
