Similar words: punishingly, vanishing, finishing, furnishing, tarnishing, diminishing, astonishing, furnishings. Meaning: ['pʌnɪʃ] adj. 1. resulting in punishment 2. characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.
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31, Responsibility for the conduct of the affairs of Amnesty International, in the words of the Statute, involves a punishing schedule.
32, So it's been punishing stocks whose sales growth has declined even as earnings growth has expanded.
33, Like Grisone, they believe that the horse regards it as a reward when the rider or handler stops punishing it!
34, I was to behave like a kind of white-skinned rani to whom such things as tightening girths and punishing dromedaries were unthinkable.
35, The company is also expected to agree to stop using its Windows licences as a way of punishing or rewarding computer manufacturers.
36, He set himself a punishing schedule of talks, lectures and conferences all over America.
37, The girl later admitted she made the story up to get back at the teacher for punishing her boyfriend.
38, Earlier this summer Julia said that she felt shattered by the show's punishing schedule.
39, It is obvious that the punishing cost of libel actions prevents Francis from making direct accusations against current athletes.
40, No other event in sport, except possibly a prizefight, is as punishing, as demanding of the mind and body.
41, This stemmed from a need to give the regular cast holidays during the otherwise punishing year-long recording schedule.
42, Mugezi's excremental duties are an apt metaphor for the punishing regime in which he finds himself trapped.
43, She recently traded in her punishing daily 6-mile run for a kinder, gentler daily 90-minute yoga session.
44, Thus it is often argued that statutes punishing cruelty to animals can only be explained in that way.
45, The instruments for punishing prison rioters were already available and the offence was unnecessary.
46, I tried punishing him for it[Sentencedict.com], but that only made it worse.
47, In Roy Vernon you had one of the best-balanced and most punishing strikers of his day.
48, The effects of the storm rippled through the economy of New York and the eastern seaboard, punishing some, rewarding others.
49, As the 80s came to an end, punishing exercise routines had become almost an alternative religion for many people.
50, A punishing schedule that has left the engine spluttering and the chief mechanic unable to furnish suitable replacement parts.
51, The moral way to resolve the problem is to keep people from entering rather than punishing their children once they are here.
52, Institutionally, there are no mechanisms for punishing some one for deviant behaviour of any kind.
53, The Act aimed to boost the fairness of fines, and introduced means-related unit fines as a way of punishing young offenders.
54, Then the members might agree to cooperate, and to join in punishing any member who defects.
55, Radically reforming conditions inside prisons, reducing overcrowding, improving prison officers' morale and punishing offenders where possible within the community.
56, Crime and the State A second major theme is the effectiveness of the state in preventing and punishing crime.
57, Gradually the pairing of this warning to time out leads to the warning itself acquiring some punishing properties.
58, Punishing the young Young people aged 18-24 years who remain out of work can lose benefits.
59, Punishing some one for doing the wrong thing may inhibit him from that action but does not establish a better pattern.
60, Since then the League have been punishing heavily anyone guilty of illegal high tackles[sentencedict.com], with eight-match suspensions being the normal currency.
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