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How to use punish in a sentence

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The second method employed by the Basel Convention is to ensure that states punish illegal traffic as a criminal offence.
And now, because they are behaving like the yobbos they really are, we'll punish them by no longer treating with them.
We struck back accordingly, giving our leaders considerable latitude to punish those who live by the sword.
Blustering racial epithets simply is not cricket, and it's a positive move by the ICC to punish offenders.
Remember when your Kindergarten teacher would punish the whole class because one kid misbehaved during recess?
It cannot compel you to remain in the congregation, forbid you from joining a competing sect, or punish you for your waywardness.
James is a tireless runner who can punish a defense with his strength or zip through it with his speed.
When you see miserably unhappy adults who punish themselves with alcohol and unhappy relationships, you know they didn't get that way overnight.
I'd strongly advocate bringing back the birch and use it to punish vandals.
Exemplary damages are distinguishable from basic and aggravated damages in that their only function is to punish the tortfeasor.
I don't believe that the sporting gods will punish us for contemplating victory and I'm all for shedding our national defeatism.
The king has threatened to punish newspapers for reports that run counter to the official monarchist line.
In her left hand she holds the scales of justice while in her right she brandishes her double-edged sword to punish the guilty.
But the attempt to define and punish a category of speech as obscene is an atavistic vestige from a distant era.
Johnny will take a little ride to rehabilitate, not brutally punish, his quarry, who is, as usual, a fellow Italian-American.
The rebels systematically practiced torture in order to extort money, punish non-cooperation, and intimidate others, the special rapporteur said.
Easdon would step in and punish with his volley, either for depth or occasionally guided crosscourt into the nick.
Others, citing religious creeds of one kind or another, claim it was God that unleashed the earthquake and tidal waves to punish humanity.
The new religions exalt secular saints, enforce dogma, punish heretics, value self-sacrifice, and sanctify writings.
Until the PC do-gooders stuck their oar in, schools could punish those who needed it.
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He requested the promulgation of a law that would stiffly punish all those attempting to play with national unity.
Kandice is a strong-willed child who before then had seldom showed emotion, even when I would punish her.
The mob's ability to shout down and punish the heretics is present even today.
It is said therefore that the power to punish or to impose consequences which are penal or punitive is an exclusively judicial one.
The measure was taken in response to security concerns and is not intended to punish inmates for their fellows cons ' transgressions.
Yes, but the Supreme Court in its summary jurisdiction, which is a statutory jurisdiction, has no power to punish contempts of court.
The legislators will have to seek out and punish those who exhibit pleonectic desires.
Successful collusion often takes a third party to regulate the agreement and punish defectors.
Food would go to the regime rather than the needy and the regime would be able to use it to reward friends and punish enemies.
If they had wanted to punish those who had prosecuted the war, that was their chance.
The international tribunal the former president lacks the legitimacy needed to punish war crimes.
Can an Ohio court punish the gruesome murder of two college students that occurred in Pennsylvania?
In updating the law on spousal rape, prosecutors in Arizona should punish that crime no differently than any other rape.
But it is far from evident that to punish the crime of homicide with death is the most just punishment or is just at all.
Most rules were justified on the basis of injunctions by the spirits of the land, who were believed to punish any infraction.
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
From this point, he lost the power to punish his opponent and switched from slugger to boxer.
However, the big Dutchman recovered before Gareth Evans could punish the mistake.
Indeed, the law has already been abused by some university administrators who now have the power to punish recusant colleagues.
It is unfair and impractical to punish motorists without offering them a genuine alternative.
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We punish because the criminal act was loathsome and the criminal himself hateful.
The only way to establish obedience in a child is to punish each and every wilful disobedience to a command.
Parents should not punish accidents or behaviors that are part of normal development, and they should avoid teasing, shaming, or nagging.
Far better that he languishes forgotten, which would punish him, rather than give him attention by sneering at him.
Generally, we hold that there's no crime worse than murder, and we punish it more harshly than we do anything else.
Prissy all the time, they were major snots when no one was around to punish them.
If the government cannot punish those they believe deserve punishment within the current bounds, then so much the worse for the government.
Poseidon is an old-fashioned prudent God that will punish any naughty humans with a blight of bothersome crabs in their nether regions.
Get real, I say, and properly punish these people or alternatively disqualify them from driving if they can't pay.
On the back of this agitation, the new law entrenched police powers to close down brothels and punish soliciting.
Their vegetation, mostly scrub pine, is noticeably weathered from the fierce storms that punish this area.
We fear to punish unjustly so we've taken the sword from the hand of justice and given her a wet noodle.
But every time my mother would punish me by whipping me with the duster, my father would rush over to shield me.
Is it not vital for nations such as the UK to stand up against such racism and punish it with trade policy?
The police presence would be greatly appreciated if they took steps to punish the abusers to the fullest extent of the law.
These autocratic managers quickly punish any underling who would begin to demand an ethical basis for work and production.
Others admit they were trying to punish a family member or significant other who they felt had wronged them.
Of course, when things go awry we always single out and punish somebody, usually the coach.
We know we have to listen to victims, punish lawbreakers, ban criminals from ministry, and open up the decision-making process.
Do not blame, criticise or punish your child or call them dirty or babyish.
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Makutu was resorted to often for the purpose of avenging some insult, or to punish a thief or other evildoer.
They want to punish someone to show all the world they will not be put upon.
If all of us punish the new usage with ridicule and opprobrium, maybe we can reverse this loss to language.
How do sexism, heterosexism and homophobia work together to constrain sexuality and gender and to punish transgression of these categories?
Adults also punish children by shouting, telling them off, sending them to their room, and withdrawing privileges.
It is the job of supervisory departments and public prosecutors to discipline and punish the relevant departments.
Overweight people often have low self-esteem, easily adopt the role of a failure and even punish themselves by overeating again.
Therefore, it is not our intention to punish you, but rather to teach you a lesson.
The High Bailiff shall make a stool and mend the pillory to punish chiders and scolders by Christmas.
It is time to punish journalists, for creating a climate of racism and hostility toward migration.
Alladi Jayasri writes about Gurudev, who reminds us of the terrible calamities waiting to punish us for our cruelty to Nature.
Now if the Greens were in charge of the wildlife park, what's the bet they would punish the rangers?
White mob violence against blacks was a deliberate tool used to maintain white supremacy, not to punish crime.
The central bank said it would punish banks which helped businesses to falsify documents regarding their overseas remissions.
Such outcomes reinforce the court's power to impose its decisions, and to punish those who disobey.
The phantom tumor caused her excruciating pain until her therapy showed her that she didn't have to punish herself for being wronged.
Your Honours, it is our submission that the object of these proceedings is to punish and to impose punishment for commission of offences.
Death duties probably appeal to old Labourites as a way to punish the landed gentry.
Fix deadlines, and if they are not met, punish and replace the lethargic and inefficient ones.
The general maxim is that it is better for ten guilty men to go free than punish an innocent, and so we should oppose this change.
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The insitutor of it was the great prophet Elias, who three times made fire come down from heaven to punish the Idolaters.
Norms use the clubs of stigma and shame to punish deviants, nonconformists, and radicals.
The rights discourse has been shifted to one of dangerousness and risk management, to exclude rather than to punish appropriately.
Euripides' Electra ironically questions belief in a metaphysical system that encourages crime only to punish it.
And it cannot cross the line into attempts to intrude on the court's authority and punish judges for making decisions one doesn't like.
Just before he was guillotined he made a speech vowing that he would return from the dead to punish his captors.
Al stared down at his right arm, at the hand clenched into a fist and the corded muscles aching to strike out, to punish her for doubting him.
It allowed her sister to punish her over and over and over again, to watch her flounder, to watch her fail.
We get our enemies and punish their crimes, but the crimes of our friends go unpunished.
God, however, decided to punish them for their presumptuousness in erecting the tower by making them speak different languages.
One evening the Chief stormed out of his bedroom to punish his servant for having forgotten his portmanteau at Umtata.
But there was no tribunal or court to punish international crimes of torture.
Many returned to the old idea that the child was an evil spirit, or daemon sent to punish the royal family.
Religious police punish infractions of the dress code with public beatings.
Under Article 215 of the Constitution the high court is a court of record and has the power to punish for contempt of itself.
A man finds out his son is using heroin and decides to go punish the dealer with a sound beating.
But, surely, it forfeits its religious significance when it is used as a weapon of destruction, to punish rather than to purify.
The ambassadors returned to Damascus and Saladin decided to punish the Franks himself.
Noye says job cuts will only punish loyal staff and do nothing to improve staff morale or customer service.
It's hit us early doors that, if you don't get your basics right, this division will punish you.
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It's important not to punish potty-training children or show disappointment when they wet or soil themselves or the bed.
How does one punish the autocratic, omnipotent president of a quasi-superpower?
As we have already said, we will take other measures to punish white collar criminals.
Epp's acknowledgment of the problems caused by the U. S. feticide laws means that he recognizes that such laws can be misapplied to punish women.
Domestic law contained provisions to combat and punish negative stereotypes and prejudices against indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian peoples.
These quotes just tell us that we mustn't punish any wolf, any which way, for any reason.
Why punish millions of peaceable supporters and the team itself for the actions of a few hundred thugs?
He then commanded another expedition to punish the Ashanti in West Africa, his capture of their capital at Kumasi in February 1873 being rewarded with his major generalcy.
The objectives of sanctions are not to punish or otherwise exact retribution on the populace.
The objective of sanctions is not to punish or otherwise exact retribution on the population.
And finally he told his bum that he was going to punish it if it didn't stop.
It comes then to be examined, whether the respondent could legally punish Mr. Lawless by imprisonment, by virtue of any inherent or implied power in the court in which he presided.
It wasn't as easy as predicted, but the Mexican lightweight backed up his words using quickness and ring savvy to punish and befuddle hometown hero, Gary Balletto.
It is clear that article 150 of the criminal code was used to punish an impertinent journalist immediately.
Either way, the organization failed to appropriately punish criminal behavior.
It is a classic anti-semitic canard to punish any Jew for the perceived crimes of all of them.
The Liebeck jury intuited that the only way to punish this logic of bigness was to partake of it.
Liz, a small, personable woman, says she does not want to punish Cheryl Thayer.
To its great shame, the United States has a pathetically weak labor law which makes it easy for employers to harass and punish workers who try to organize unions.
They will find ways to punish you covertly and reward those that do go along with their narrative.
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Now, with the dustpan and brush in her hands and a furious, cold-eyed expression on her face, my mother explained that she was about to punish me again.
But the flip side is that they will punish those they see as being unhelpful.
And these algorithms can dictate behavior and then punish players who dismiss them.
The State party should investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators under the federal extraterritorial criminal torture statute.
And the law can easily be used as a political tool to punish any disrespect of the state.
It was impossible to ignore the basic point that, were Ayr even slightly more competent, they would punish Hibs' inadequacy.
Some are legalists who continue to insist that the war was launched without justification in international law and wish to punish those responsible for their transgressions.
I had lost my liberty, but they wanted to punish me on top of that.
Finally the guy gets fed up and throws the parrot in the freezer to punish him.
Asked, if Christie is so terrible, why he would want to punish the people of the Garden State with his presence, Tancredo laughed.
Don't punish the press just because the publishers' plans have gone askew.
Shylock engineers a position where he can punish his enemies on their own terms and his merciless resolve to take what is his is articulated with pained eloquence.
Did North Korea hack Sony to punish them for a Seth Rogen movie that taunts Kim Jong-un?
The question arises whether the problem can be addressed indirectly through trade sanctions or restrictions to punish countries that refuse to improve environmental standards.
But Lorgun's anger had made his wish to humiliate Bale, to punish him beyond all else, to make an example of what would happen if this uprising were to occur again.
Airline travel is one of the most masochistic forms of bureaucracy devised by humankind to punish us for our collective sins, whatever they may be.
He also echoed comments from other panelists and a network research head in the audience who said it is important not to punish viewers who don't watch a second screen.
Or to punish the party of segregation, Tammany Hall, and racially discriminatory labor unions?
An act of parliament was passed in 1973 to set up a tribunal with jurisdiction to punish the perpetrators of the genocide.
After the recent wave of attacks on the media, the Maoist party took no steps to punish those responsible.
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Even if morality does reach down to our private lives, is it morally justifiable to punish someone in their public life for their private misdemeanours?
In the wake of his death, three men moved forward to form a new triumvirate which would punish Caesar's assassins and then divide up the Roman world.
My overall opinion is that capital punishment is an effective deterrent for crime, and as such, should be used to punish the extreme crimes, such as mentioned earlier.
The purpose of this unit is to identify and punish anyone crossing the level crossing by circumventing the barriers when they are down.
We can punish as many rapists as we want, but as long as a rapefriendly system stays in place, each punished rapist will be replaced by unnumbered new ones.
He sighed like a parent who now had to punish a naughty child.
Those punish snoops who pry into someone else's private affairs, anyone who publicly discloses embarrassing private facts, and publicity that shows someone in a false light.
When she wishes to punish anyone she gives them a basket of one hundred pairs of shoes all with the laces tied in a hundred tight knots and makes them sit and untie every one.
First, killings occur regularly and the authorities are poorly placed to do anything to prevent them or to punish the perpetrators.
Those who dislike speech or publications vilifying certain groups should speak out in their defence, not use the law to punish unwelcome opinions.
A school, therefore, might punish a student for online behaviour that is making it hard for other students to learn in a safe environment.
Amazing how the gods often punish those who pull off an arsey win.
Now a bitter row is set to develop over claims that Hull Council is deliberately being starved of funds by Mr Prescott to punish the council's new Liberal Democrat rulers.
Abubakar is expected to sign additional legislation in the coming weeks that expands the use of caning to punish adultery and other crimes, Gelanggang said.
It must thus be proper to punish the parents by calling them from work so they can discipline their child to ensure compliance with the code of conduct of the school.
I've done as little gardening as possible since I was a boy because my housemaster used to punish my transgressions by making me go and spend hours weeding his garden.
The bad news is I skipped the cool down and the imps of sloth have decided to punish my errant behaviour with a pinched nerve, that restricts the movement of my head.
Within this new legal framework, Spaniards could in good conscience punish the bodies of indigenes as harshly and theatrically as former conquistadors.
Meanwhile, in the online world, sites have rarely cast users as either informants or private attorneys general able to punish breaches of website contracts and rules.
And if they are, how would you punish the fornicator or adulterer?
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Is the baby boomer electorate so puritanical that they would punish progressive politicians who voiced support for liberalizing or legalizing intoxicants, or simply marijuana?
The guidelines, created by the government in 1991, instruct federal judges on how to punish organizations guilty of crimes such as fraud, polluting, and cooking the books.
According to him, the criminal case was framed to punish him for the investigations conducted.
Now we have this Conservative government barging in and wanting to send youth to prison to punish and deter them.
It may also be used to punish women for transgressing social or moral codes, for instance, those prohibiting adultery or drunkenness in public.
The purpose of this provision is to stop employers from changing the working conditions in order to punish employees who have chosen to unionize.
It should also be possible to punish those who break the law or the rules, even if they come from a different country.
For each creative way to counterfeit money, there has been an equally creative way to punish the counterfeiter.
It was alleged that the State failed to investigate and punish the perpetrators.
The Maidan was supposed to be a revolution against an oligarchic system, not a movement to punish a gas oligarch and reward a chocolate one.
The country famously uses caning to punish various nonviolent infractions, such as overstaying a visa.
What steps have been taken to identify, prosecute and punish those responsible for these crimes?
Setting a shorter deadline would only be meaningful to the extent that it would become possible to punish intentional delays.
It also comes from factors in a person's environment that either normalize or punish the behaviour.
Libel and slander laws are commonly used to punish unacceptable speech.
Skeptics doubt they have the regulatory muscle to punish violators.
We are rightly chastised and will punish ourselves for our failures.
Commanders were to deglamorize drinking, educate service members on its harmful effects, punish drunken driving severely, and de-emphasize alcohol at social functions.
It may also be considered unjust to punish an employee for the breach of some regulation as he may not have had the means of detecting the breach or of preventing it.
These petitions helped us understand that neither Wheeler's family nor his community regarded the death penalty as the only way to punish his crime.
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The visitors took the lead through Paul Coffey after 15 minutes, who was on hand to punish a mix-up between goalkeeper Colin McCabe and Willie Holligan.
You make similar mistakes against lower rated opponents but, of course, they are less likely to punish your mistakes, and they give you less opportunity to make them.
Why punish consumers with water charges that can't be justified?
Some teachers also punish students by flogging them with whips made of rubber, with heavier canes, or simply by slapping, kicking, or pinching them.
Dishonored and facing his own death, War is given the opportunity to return to Earth to search for the truth and punish those responsible.
The poem seems to punish the romantic for no knowing enough, for not guessing at the fervourless state of a culture shorn of idealistic aspirations.
Fraternal correction consists of trying to emend the brothers through charity and not to punish them.
They can find fault and make recommendations but cannot order action nor punish individuals.
Our heroine falls in an abuse of licentious power that will enable her to punish her fans.
Secretly terrified of losing his alpha status, he will browbeat, humiliate, and punish anyone who gets in his way.
It is our responsibility as legislators to punish those who disobey traffic laws and the Criminal Code.
The aim is to disband and punish those criminal organisations that are involved in this type of traffic.
Here are the Russians, they will punish us for our sloth and hubris, but if we make Johnny read better!
The point of debarment under the law, he said, is not to punish, but to protect the government from suppliers that do not perform.
If in Europe we search and punish pedophiles, in the other continents, we drop a veil and pretend not to see anything.
In England, both houses of Parliament have asserted their power to punish contumacious acts.
North Dakota, for instance, has enacted a bill to punish the use of a degree from a diploma mill as a legitimate credential.
The one pitfall of course is that if we punish the steward of the land, we end up with the triple s approach to preservation.
Final-salary schemes, by contrast, punish backpacking and reward sedentariness.
Solitary confinement was never used to punish them or coerce them into making a confession.
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Competition legislation should provide the authority with the power both to be lenient with defectors from cartels and to punish the rest.
Do you believe that I should punish those who by their sins offend Me, when I know that the sin offends more he who commits it?
What about their right to self-determination, equity and justice and to punish those who have committed crimes against their sons and daughters?
An example of notice is an appeal to the transgressor to cease its offending conduct and punish those responsible.
Carleton did not intervene to punish those responsible, and many believed that he tacitly approved of such conduct.
Since when is it army and governmental policy to punish Joe because John screwed up?
If the workshop participants' intent was to punish only those who deliberately infect their partners, they appear to be dangerously off the mark.
The act of Bastinado, generally used to punish miscreants but also to elicit answers from torture victims, extends back through history hundreds of years.
Critics observed that the Vatican was slow to punish and defrock priests who were known pedophiles.
We have to invest the necessary resources and not just use these people or punish them by incarcerating them.
This commandment also instructs them to deter public false teaching, and to punish the obstinate.
Her father drifted away in the boat and whenever human beings do wrong he returns to punish them.
A libelous campaign pamphlet is harder to punish if it is anonymous.
The Council did not punish, rather it took preventive action for which it relied on a given set of information.
One of the main factors is undoubtedly the lack of capacity to detain and punish the perpetrators that are apprehended.
They now have no excuse to not thoroughly investigate the circumstances of her death, and punish those who committed this deplorable crime.
While the U. S. is acting swiftly to punish offences and rectify legislative shortcomings, the Minister of Transport has not even left the starting gate.
To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
The foreign companies would punish Bolivia by refusing to invest and only sustaining the bare minimum of operations here.
Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honour.
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The duty to stop a copyright violation, however, that is, to bar access, is imposed to protect the rights-owner in the future and not to compensate him or punish the infringer for the past.
Thus, insomuch as criminal acts violate guaranteed rights, the international human rights should compel States to punish those responsible for their transgression in order to conform to the duties they have.
Unless it is so grossly obscene that it is caught by the Obscene Publications Act, and a jury finds the material is such as to deprave and corrupt anyone seeing it, there isn't any specific offence to punish such an act.
The negative review prompted François Simon, a food writer for Le Figaro, to investigate whether the Red Guide might also punish La Côte d'Or for its staidness.
We dishonour those brave men and women when we fail to prevent or punish those from within their ranks who victimize the very people peacekeepers are meant to protect and serve.
Thus the judge will sentence and punish the evildoer.
The towering masked figure dances at the culmination of a series of other masquerades, protected by six 'police' and carrying a mirror with the power to draw in and punish evildoers.
Flore, 17, comes up against the inspector and the teacher, who have to punish this misdeed which has threatened the very integrity of the school system.
They believe it is because competition judges punish junior skaters for risk taking, so that they play it safe, win junior events, but fail in world competition.
They have lost everything and they fall a bit behind in their payments to credit companies, and then these companies hike up the interest rate to punish them.
It is true this man attacks me, that woman reviles me, but they are God's representatives, who have come on behalf of his mercy to punish me as his love alone knows how.
If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both.
The Rapid Vienna man needed ten minutes to find a way past Gambia and just 120 seconds to punish the USA after coming off the bench in those games, but as a starter he was unable to make the same difference.
Thus far, the government has been a passive observer of events and has done little to support innovation, punish those who cut corners, and spread the costs required to widen margins of safety.
Even though the AOR did not seek the Member's dismissal from the Force, the Board found that the Member had acted with a degree of premeditation and with the intent to punish the prisoner, and ordered him to resign.
Yahweh, do not punish me in your rage, or reprove me in the heat of anger.
If they do not reform, God will punish them severely, not only blighting the fruits of the field but allowing the entire people, young and old alike, to die».
If we want to punish a wrongdoer, then intention is an absolute prerequisite, but if we are focused on the speech itself, then searching for intention is a side trip that isn't profitable.
The Father's Law of love always offers a generous opportunity to the delinquent to regenerate himself, while your laws, on the contrary, humiliate and punish the wrongdoer, and many times the innocent and the weak.
Brian Cote of Andersen Consulting insists that shareholders, fed up with low returns, will punish firms that try to expand by adding capacity in an already glutted market.
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We must, we repeat, preserve our neutrality, and their right of asylum which British soil affords inviolate, and punish with the sternest severity any breach which can be discovered.
We should punish the stained and bring in the police for those who tried to rip off the system, but we should not stain the entire sponsorship program.
I believe it to be crucial that we have a transparent EU, one in which the citizen can establish who is responsible for what, and can upbraid and punish the guilty parties.
Contemporary Canadian law does not seek to punish procreation outside of marriage, nor does it seek to interfere with the freedom of married persons to choose whether or not to procreate.
Solon, the great lawgiver of ancient Athens, remarked: The city is best modelled where those that are not injured prosecute and punish the unjust as zealously as do those that are injured.
May God judge me by my deserts, and punish me with more bitter suffering than even this hour, if by any act or will of mine anything ever come between us!
The other idea is a principle undergirding toleration: a certain modesty about the truth of one's beliefs and corresponding hesitancy to punish dissidents.
Yet this strayed dangerously close to looking like premeditated surrender and Liverpool were undoubtedly fortunate that Madrid were not in the mood to punish them more heavily for their impertinence.
Provisions of Law 88 on the Protection of National Independence and the Economy of Cuba have also been used to repress criticism and punish dissidents who work with foreign media.
The case involves serious allegations about the torture of a detainee, so why punish the journalist rather than get to the bottom of the case by examining all the evidence, starting with the prisoner's own statements.
The purpose of the Canadian Human Rights Act is not to punish people. Instead, it is designed to resolve human rights disputes and prevent them from happening again.
Do we have the right to simply turn away from such situations, citing the fact that we already have legislation or treaties that punish and condemn such barbaric behaviour?
The Commission should not punish 100 000 people in Poland, as the Chairman Martin Schulz put it, because of the neglect and callousness of three governments.
These would punish Mr Kibaki's more obdurate ministers and backers, while sparing poorer Kenyans from the effects of general trade and aid sanctions.
For this reason, experts advise parents never to punish children for wetting the bed, any more than they would scold youngsters for developing a cold.
How would you like to have somebody give you a Christmas present and then tell you, day after day thereafter, what you are to do with it, and even punish you if you failed to care for it the way the donor wishes?
We will never waver in our commitment to defend ourselves, our allies, and our interests, and any adversary should know we will defend ourselves and punish aggression.
In that regard, appropriate institutions and legislation were required to punish those who discriminated, incited or perpetrated acts of violence against foreigners or members of minorities.
Most people, Iraqis included, can see that there is a world of difference between a regime founded on fear and torture and one that has sworn to root out and punish the moronic abusers who have shamed it.
The procedures are too lengthy, and the capacity to punish those who defraud the European Community must be ensured by some kind of security or guarantee, to be applied through the banks.
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The paper points out that governments which punish sacrilege are giving representatives of the state, from bureaucrats to judges to village elders, a kind of arbitrary power.
The European Union utterly condemns such ignoble acts and calls on the authorities to do everything in their power to find and punish the perpetrators.
There is a welling up in this country that wants us to be effective and intelligent in our compassion, but they will punish us severely if we end up adopting the wrong measures.
This move to punish the people of Arnprior has already backfired.
Because dereliction inevitably occurs in the best regulated of professional families, some have formed their own governing councils with powers to punish offenders by expulsion if necessary.
To do otherwise is to punish people who may not be guilty.
Whites are being systematically intimidated and driven from their land through violent means to punish them for their support for the opposition and to buy the votes of the landless farmers.
You punish yourself for not matching up to your own wildly unattainable expectations, which have been drawn from society's wildly unattainable expectations.
Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it.
The Italians and the French do not want to punish Putin.
He has to punish them but does it justly and moves on.
We believe that divestment measures are meant to punish countries engaged in wrongdoing and cannot be taken lightly, either by a country that takes such measures or by the country that is subject to them.
It may seek to punish bankrupts or to rehabilitate them.
The principle of due diligence includes the obligation to prevent human rights violations, investigate them, punish them when they occur, and provide redress and support for victims.
In interest of aviation safety, it is essential that results of accident investigations are used to prevent future accidents rather than to punish unintentional mistakes which would hamper a proper accident investigation.
In other words, the Law of 13 July 1990 does not punish the expression of an opinion, but the denial of a historical reality universally recognized.
The doctrine of superior responsibility prescribes the criminal liability of the persons who, being in command, have failed to either prevent or punish the crimes of their subordinates.
It would have been absurd to punish the poorest of the poor.
Measures were taken to end the systematic recording of all meetings and demonstrations and to prevent and punish the disproportionate use of force by security forces.
It also recommends that they take urgent measures to investigate any allegations of violence against foreigners in these centres and punish those responsible.
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A CUCKING stool, which dipped the occupants in water, was used to punish disorderly women and dishonest tradesmen.
In 1980, her husband was banished to Gorky to punish him for his activities and further isolate him.
I'd drown out the babbling past that I wear like a hairshirt to irritate my sense of failure and to punish myself because of it.
They may punish responsibly, antisocially, spitefully or not punish at all.
I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
His men caused an affray in Dover, and Edward ordered Godwin as earl of Kent to punish the town's burgesses, but he took their side and refused.
In 1164 Henry intervened to seize lands along the border of Brittany and Normandy, and in 1166 invaded Brittany to punish the local barons.
In January 1175 Richard was dispatched to Aquitaine to punish the barons who had fought for him.
He had substantial support though from Guala, who intended to win the civil war for Henry and punish the rebels.
The Speaker enforces the rules of the House and may warn and punish members who deviate from them.
The Russians strongly opposed any move towards an independent Poland and one reason Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812 was to punish them.
The Speaker is also responsible for maintaining order during debate, and may punish members who break the rules of the House.
Teachers assist children to explain what happened, before any decision to punish is made.
When Godwin refused to punish them, the king, who had been unhappy with the Godwins for some time, summoned them to trial.
It was both his duty to punish offenses and stop them from being committed.
It then passed the Massachusetts Government Act to punish the rebellious colony.
Their officers lacked the means to punish an entire division, and harsh measures were not immediately implemented.
Lacking the means to punish an entire division, the officers of the division did not immediately implement harsh measures against the mutineers.
She gave weak support to US President Jimmy Carter who tried to punish the USSR with economic sanctions.
After the fight, infuriated at his loss, Poseidon sent a monstrous flood to the Attic Plain, to punish the Athenians for not choosing him.

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