Sentence examples for word punishment from inspiring English sources

The word "punishment" is enticingly loaded.

At three separate fringe meetings in the last 18 hours, the Lib Dem has hit out at Downing Street for insisting that the word "punishment" be inserted in the legal aid and sentencing bill.

They have fought crime armed only with a Victorian strategy that is still much-loved by our backwards-looking media, a strategy that can be summed up in one word: punishment.

Opponents said such a written promise was worthless, because while the F.T.C. could punish Google for violating its word, the punishment would be to take the next step and secure a consent decree after all.

Waiting for Judgment Day The Yankees are still awaiting word on punishment stemming from Saturday's brawl with the Boston Red Sox.

Pain, from the Latin word for punishment, poena, can feel like the work of a torturer who must have -- but won't reveal -- a purpose.

In other words, capital punishment had become for him, in the court's hands, a promise of fairness unfulfilled.

The "discovery of childhood," Ariès says, deprived the child of all that and "inflicted on him the birch, the prison cell — in a word, the punishments usually reserved for convicts".

"In other words, the punishment does not fit the crime".

In other words, if punishment worked to fight addiction, the condition itself couldn't exist.

In return the government would enter agreements to delay or cancel prosecution if companies promised to change their behavior -- in other words, no punishment and little assurance that it wouldn't happen again.