Synonym: penalisation, penalization, penalty. Similar words: astonishment, establishment, accomplishment, impoverishment, relinquishment, accomplishments, establishment of, punish. Meaning: ['pʌnɪʃmənt] n. the act of punishing.
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181. Children quickly learn how to avoid punishment.
182. Reciprocity is viewed as the appropriate basis for punishment.
183. The Administration proposed an understanding clarifying the relationship between these goals and other traditional goals of the penal system such as punishment.
184. Beccaria's reputation for humanity comes from the famous sections that oppose the use of torture and of capital punishment.
185. Outside the prison, demonstrators on both sides of the capital punishment issue cheered, cried and prayed.
186. The carrot and stick approach is to do with reward and punishment, incentives and pressures.
187. It was the captain's job to administer punishment on the ship.
188. What is wrong is that the punishment is far removed from the problem behaviour it is intended to curb.
189. For staunch opponents, there is mounting concern about a political and legal climate that more readily fosters capital punishment.
190. If approved by the House, the punishment would allow Gingrich to continue as speaker.
191. On the question whether on merits it would be desirable to abolish capital punishment Ministers were divided.
192. Expiatory punishment is arbitrary in character because it does not bear any relationship to the offense.
193. Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Kurt Vonnegut
194. Being a super-duper well-'ard off-road jobbie, your machine can take a fair amount of punishment before falling to bits.
195. For campaigners for the abolition of corporal punishment this will have been a setback.
196. Punishment alone has never made a bad character into a good one, or even ensured temporary good behaviour.
197. The victims' demand for capital punishment has boomeranged on them, provoking sympathy for the person they most abhor.
198. If there had been less enthusiasm among the congregation for ufology, maybe they would have devised a public punishment for me.
199. This whole capital punishment thing is becoming a real pain in the neck for a civilized society.
200. Being a glutton for punishment, a few days later we rounded it off by doing the Danube Knee bend towards Budapest.
201. Will he confirm that curfews constitute collective punishment, which is punishable under article 33 of the fourth Geneva convention?
202. Syd Dernley was a public hangman before the capital punishment was abolished in nineteen sixty-five.
203. It is better to tell the truth and face the punishment, than to lie and face the consequences. Anthony Liccione
204. They had conveniently forgotten to tell me I had to carry out my punishment holding the glass in my left hand.
204. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
205. Major Burrows had dealt with the matter so effectively the father did not need to administer any further punishment.
206. The only way they dealt with it was to throw people down the punishment block.
207. She starts each day by calling the register, holding a religious assembly and reading the punishment book.
208. L.. Douglas Wilder, ruling the punishment did not fit the crime, granted Iverson conditional clemency and freed him.
209. When dawn finally arrived, an ill-rested city streamed to witness the cause of its apprehension being sent to her eternal punishment.
210. The legal rights of children are emphasized, as are the prosecution and punishment of negligent or abusive parents.
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