Sentence examples for wrong punishment from inspiring English sources

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But the fate of Bear Stearns shows that, when things go really wrong, punishment can be severe.Bear's executives have lost billions.

"Besides, the motifs present in fairytales are timeless and fairly universal, comprising dichotomies such as good and evil; right and wrong, punishment and reward, moral and immoral, male and female," she added.

Those administrators were fired for choosing the wrong punishment for Coach Rice, but he's simply sorry for not watching the video himself.

Yet the death penalty is the wrong punishment — not just for low-profile murderers, but also for notorious ones, such as Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose execution is pending, or Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh — whose execution The Times initially agreed with but then, 11 years later, realized was wrong. .

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Foundational ideologies of right and wrong and punishment and redemption remain rooted in this religious tradition.

If your parents found out you lied on top of doing something else wrong, your punishment will be even more severe.

Even among those guards who initially resisted the aggression, all eventually rationalized their decision to join ranks with authoritarian guards, and all soon rationalized their behavior as legitimate due to the behavior of the one being punished -- even when the one being punished had clearly done nothing wrong and the punishment was by any standard a violation of human decency.

The case illustrates what's wrong with capital punishment, especially in Pennsylvania.

People ask, for instance, what is wrong with the punishment fitting the crime.

And simultaneously they believed that persons of no status, particularly persons who had done something wrong, deserved physical punishment.

"Outlaw," on NBC, offers just that flamboyant premise: Jimmy Smits plays Justice Cyrus Garza, a conservative who decides -- after a brush with a comely representative of the American Civil Liberties Union -- that he was wrong about capital punishment and other issues.

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