| Hacking into computer networks was long seen as little more than a prank, and punishment was typically a slap on the wrist. |
| This is a time when love is like punishment in that you are falling for somebody unable to reciprocate openly. |
| The choice of whipping underscored the attempt to continue an antebellum form of punishment and to reinvent techniques to control the black body. |
| Ma chose to defend his department chiefs rather than administering reasonable punishments and sincerely apologizing for the blunders. |
| The punishments for violating the statute did not vary by condition, but by race and gender. |
| At these meetings, cases were judged and punishments imposed by a council of important men who were changed from time to time. |
