Sentence examples for will be meted out from inspiring English sources

"Closing the restaurant is a self-imposed punishment on top of the fine that will be meted out by the court," the statement reads.

But "the stern visitation of war will be meted out to the rebels and their allies … rest assured that the traitor, when caught, shall receive a traitor's doom".

Punishment will be meted out for messages deemed to promote disrespect for the country's institutions or "alarm" among the population.Mr Chávez justified the enabling law a device he has used previously during his dozen years in office as a necessary response to flooding that has killed 40 people.

"If they are found to violate employment regulations, severe punishment will be meted out,” Chen Feng, vice director of the marketing department of BOCOG, told the China Daily.

The guests are themselves very elderly, and their thoughts turn frequently to the fate that awaits them in the hereafter, the punishments that will be meted out for past sins.

The Minister of Education has warned bullies, in a public statement, that strong action will be meted out against them and rightly declared that bullying was "not acceptable".

A senior member of the ruling Congress party, Digvijay Singh, responded by saying Mr Hazare would be treated the same way as supporters of the holy man Swami Ramdev, who were forced from their anti-corruption protest site in Delhi three weeks ago at midnight by club-wielding police: "If Anna goes on a fast in New Delhi, he will also be meted out the treatment," he said.

* Six strokes of the birch will surely be meted out to someone at the Department for Education, after minister John Hayes delivered a speech in parliament, large chunks of which appear to have been lifted directly from the Wikipedia entry on bank holidays.

Nor will it be a battle in which there is one clear opponent to be fought and vanquished: defeats will have to be meted out, on terrorist bands and, quite probably, on their Taliban hosts.

Fines and penalties on City firms will in future be meted out by Mark Steward, who has been appointed head of enforcement at the Financial Conduct Authority.

Some form of justice will eventually have to be meted out to these inmates, but so far there has been little discussion of what form this might take.