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    1. He had been tired of being ignored, so Ackers had found a way to cut through the volume controls and punish Vinnie for treating him with so little respect


    2. I wouldn't honestly have worried about a broken finger or two for me, or even a leg if it would protect my children, but not being able to do anything if they chose to punish Will


    3. If you’re a bad boy then I’ll have to punish you


    4. "I think Moamar's first priority is to kill the wizards of the Kassikan," Bin-Martis said, "Secondly punish their followers as much as possible


    5. "We can punish," Vincef said, "we cannot defeat


    6. 'We can punish, but cannot defeat


    7. Since they were tracking the raft, they could punish the native crew for lying about Alan's disappearance


    8. For that single moment I hated him and was glad he was in trouble, and I suppose I even exaggerated my panic a little just to make Auntie tell him off and so make him feel bad and to punish him


    9. "We can only punish Alan if he is innocent," Ava told him


    10. “Try not to punish me with pounds I’ll have difficulty removing

    11. “To punish Milton for what he did to those children, I destroyed all his children right in front of him


    12. We other gods must all do as you bid us, but her you neither scold nor punish; you encourage her because the pestilent creature is your daughter


    13. In her short time here, Nerissa had seen Praegon punish slaves for all manner of offenses


    14. Many religions and religious people still condemn, punish and ostracize homosexuals


    15. That she hasn’t sold me off at once, Nerissa realized, or even invented excuses to punish me, means she fears Theoton’s reaction


    16. there are other ways to punish and better ways


    17. satisfied that absence in his mind? Had she become both father and mother to him? The father he longed to punish and the mother he longed to love?


    18. "Can't they punish those bullies or something?"


    19. care about a woman? They’re only put on earth to punish men, ever since that first one Pandora


    20. turning benevolent at last, they’d chosen to punish her hubris by snatching away the daughter whom she would have loved so well

    21. You’ll recall that Sisyphus angered the gods, and they set out to punish him


    22. “I should punish you somehow


    23. Under the republic no magistrate could have had authority enough to protect the slave, much less to punish the master


    24. Where the security of the magistrate, though supported by the principal people of the country, is endangered by every popular discontent; where a small tumult is capable of bringing about in a few hours a great revolution, the whole authority of government must be employed to suppress and punish every murmur and complaint against it


    25. All his brother sectaries are, for the credit of the sect, interested to observe his conduct; and, if he gives occasion to any scandal, if he deviates very much from those austere morals which they almost always require of one another, to punish him by what is always a very severe punishment, even where no evil effects attend it, expulsion or excommunication from the sect


    26. How dangerous must it have been for the sovereign to attempt to punish a clergyman for any crime whatever, if his order were disposed to protect him, and to represent either the proof as insufficient for convicting so holy a man, or the punishment as too severe to be inflicted upon one whose person had been rendered sacred by religion ? The sovereign could, in such circumstances, do no better than leave him to be tried by the ecclesiastical courts, who, for the honour of their own order, were interested to restrain, as much as possible, every member of it from committing enormous crimes, or even from giving occasion to such gross scandal as might disgust the minds of the people


    27. The farmers of the public revenue never find the laws too severe, which punish any attempt to evade the payment of a tax


    28. feeling among all people in the North to capture and punish all of those Confederates who they thought were behind the


    29. punish Booth and his conspirators


    30. There was also confusion as to how to punish the leaders of the rebellion, or whether to

    31. punish them at all


    32. But you did exactly that! Now I have to punish her for your selfish acts!


    33. Regardless of how the crowd had reacted, would Ruby Tower punish him? Would he face the firing squad? Or the dark room? The thought of solitary confinement and sensory deprivation made him shudder, and he prayed that whatever Ruby Tower had in store for him, it would not be that


    34. He attacked her, not because he wanted to punish her, not to make himself feel better, but because his pain was ruling now and he didn’t know what else he could do


    35. Of course now they really had good reason to be angry with him and punish him


    36. McKinley's failure to punish Otis makes the president guilty of horrendous callousness with regards to Filipino lives


    37. A belief that equates wealth with “natural virtue” and poverty with sin inevitably fails to punish the wealthy for their crimes, and leads to a culture of lawlessness among financial elites


    38. This is sometimes used to punish you but mostly punishment will be physical


    39. In the US, many called for a blockade or invasion, to punish Mexico by a mix of force and economic and diplomatic weapons


    40. In part this is a treaty that exists to placate the right wing on a problem that did not exist, except as an excuse to punish Iran

    41. The US would have seen a Congress and president united in their intent to rebuild, united in their efforts for Black equality, and united to punish Confederate traitors and terrorists


    42. She likely would have pushed for bailouts, and then failed to punish any Wall Street criminals, much like happened under Obama


    43. Mother was away, but her Father was not going to punish Joseph; she would put a stop to that


    44. Jesus Christ will return to punish the unbelieving world before


    45. “Punish me, punish me


    46. “Then punish me again, for while I would have, he did not!” her blush was crimson with the shame of her public confession, but she stood her ground, as she shrieked her anger


    47. The men outside, they will still punish you, but your soul will be bound to the one God


    48. We will punish negative behaviour


    49. – The Light does not punish


    50. Mexico supports policies that encourage illegal immigration to the United States, yet Mexico has severe laws that punish those who come into Mexico illegally














































    1. ‘You have to be punished … the police arrested you


    2. I would probably be punished for being so late and missing dinner


    3. For example, when an infant has an accident and is paralyzed for the rest of his life, I can never swallow the tale that “this event serves an invisible but good purpose” or “his soul chose this because he needs this experience”, or “he is punished for something bad he did in his past life” and all that paranoiac piffle


    4. "I hated you for a long time, for a long time I punished you


    5. bad as they say it’s their fault and they should be punished for their


    6. concerned that these men be punished


    7. yet we considered him punished by


    8. punished you with that broken foot!’ said A and walked off cursing


    9. Yet somehow, for some reason, he was seemingly being punished by his corrupt government, or the badly managed economic structure, or the power-mongering banking system, or perhaps even by God himself! Who were the true villains in this nasty, unspeakable situation he had been so unfairly subjected to? Who was to blame! The culprits had to be identified quickly so they could be scolded and punished and then things could be put back the way they were


    10. be punished with everlasting destruction…" (2 Thessalonians 1:9)

    11. "Where a very serious crime is punished by death and the


    12. " be punished with everlasting destruction" (2 Thessalonians 1:9)


    13. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction…


    14. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction


    15. That "they will be punished with everlasting destruction" –


    16. That she’d be punished for eternity because he was her brother


    17. As far as I'm concerned, they're both despicable, and deserve to be punished


    18. In Babylon no one ever dared interfere in state matters like he had, for he or she would be punished summarily


    19. If Jupiter punished Psyche and Cupid for creating a demigod in their Temple, she might get some of her power back


    20. These are crimes that will never be punished

    21. Under the strange law currently in effect, a perpetrator is punished for what he (supposedly) thinks as well as for what he does


    22. assassins had been promptly caught and punished


    23. “This caused a number of his comrades to be killed but not content by the travesty he then saved his own skin and ran leaving his comrades to fight on this Sir is cowardice in the face of the enemy and must be punished by the correct sentence which is death


    24. influence that wanted him tried and punished


    25. Crime is wrong and should be punished, always, but it should be punishable by an appropriate prison sentence decided by a judge and jury, as has worked in our country for a long time


    26. He was punished severely as he was told, ‘Rules are rules’


    27. The sergeant would have known in which room the offender had been and that female cadet would have been severely punished


    28. Ragged and ignorant as were Garcia's soldiers, they did not steal and loot as charged, for theft is religiously punished with death in the rebel camps


    29. " How many complain and how many are punished for this I wonder


    30. Was I being punished for putting our five year plan before God? Ha! Our five year plan – that was a joke

    31. Punished by Laughcraft


    32. Despite the rumours to the contrary we never acted deliberately outside the laws (silly as they was) of the day and those who did and got caught were severely punished


    33. Each Saturday at noon she was stood naked on the scale and if she was as much as two pounds from 128 in either direction, she was punished


    34. I had expected a lot of drama, but Prism just told us to serve our new Master’s well or we would be severely punished, and then she gave us each the number of a hut that we were to report to


    35. If unlucky, it all depended on the Sergeants mood, the rest of the platoon would be punished for “being f disgraceful and inviting the f wrath of God not only on himself, but also on his beloved sergeant f unfairly too since he is f known far and wide to be a God f fearing man


    36. Not only was Otis never punished for atrocities, virtually no other US soldiers were either


    37. No one was punished for causing these deaths


    38. If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless


    39. William Colby was also not punished but promoted


    40. Had the top Bush administration officials been punished the same as Japanese war criminals who committed the exact same war crimes, at least six Bush officials and Bush himself would have and should have faced the death penalty for torture

    41. This punished with a sentence of up to twenty years imprisonment should any person “utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal…or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the military…or the flag


    42. Can you still trust her? Or do you believe that she should be dismissed? Or punished?” He asked the questions lightly, but his gaze on me was intense, searching


    43. What would you have done if I had said that I wanted her to be punished?”


    44. Carter himself in recent years described conditions in Gaza and the West Bank as “apartheid” with widespread segregation, discrimination, and the entire population collectively punished by the Israeli government


    45. Military dictatorships tend to only give up power by being forced out, and they often still insist on both veto power over what the public decides in elections and immunity from being punished for their atrocities


    46. For both of the above to happen, former Confederates and white supremacist terrorists had to be punished, not pardoned


    47. Abolitionist writings were punished with death or exile


    48. “My humble apologies, and the men responsible have been punished,” said Dawley


    49. All Haitians were collectively punished for half a century for what a few did


    50. Haiti was still being punished by the French government as late as the mid twentieth century











































    1. The law, contrary to all the ordinary principles of justice, first creates the temptation, and then punishes those who yield to it; and it commonly enhances the punishment, too, in proportion to the very circumstance which ought certainly to alleviate it, the temptation to commit the crime


    2. One can say that God punishes us for our sins, or that we are punished by our sins, or that we reap the conse-quences of what we sow


    3. 31 For it is not the power of them by whom they swear, but it is the just vengeance of sinners, that always punishes the offence of the


    4. our God and Lord of our fathers, which punishes us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers, that he do not according as we


    5. 28 We take to witness against you the Heaven and the Earth and our God and Lord of our fathers which punishes us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers that he do not according as we have said this day


    6. seen the shepherds; and he said to me "What do you wish with me?" I said to him "Sir that you would order the shepherd who punishes to depart out of my house because he afflicts me exceedingly


    7. God never punishes His children, because all of God’s punishment towards us was taken by Jesus on the cross! (Though He does discipline us in love, which is different than punishment


    8. punishes the good players and rewards the bad? And would not the number one


    9. they said: One man sins, God punishes all? Greeley had never been much of a spiritual man, but


    10. You should understand that there is a culture present and mind set which punishes those who experience this

    11. Once again, no one responds and he punishes that entire class until the problem is resolved


    12. Now knowing that God punishes not, but loves his children, even with their faults, gives me a zeal for the road ahead and the plans that God has stored for me in this adventure


    13. Allah says this punishes YOU! If that terrible


    14. And in what must be the height of hypocrisy, Islam frowns upon adultery and punishes the involved with savagery! And, sadly, it is those Musalmans without moolah to circumvent the sharia that have to face the harsh music of Islam


    15. Obsessions with materialism punishes all other deeds


    16. The Almighty says: “Such is the punishment of your Provider when He punishes the sinful nations


    17. The Law hates because it decrees what is right and wrong and hates and punishes the wrong, which is often love, since Love does not seek to condemn and punish, but to forgive and liberate


    18. Then, disease, mishap and trouble will only ever affect him who deserves it, whether as punishment for a bad deed he had committed previously, for which Al’lah punishes him so as to cleanse his heart of the moral ailments and disease (caused by his being fond of the lowly desires that caused him to turn from the right path); or to raise the man from one state to a higher one, since all of the Almighty’s Behaviour is aimed at achieving goodness (amongst other Attributes) for this man, for which He is always praised


    19. When one nation declares an area beyond its border its sphere of influence, who is allowed to influence whom, because cannot every state declare its own sphere of influence? When states are competing for influence, how much do you think they are cognizant of and represent your cause? For if what the State wants is some amorphous betterment for you and yours, how is that achieved by your death in war, rather than the equal sharing of the county's wealth? How free are any under the influential sway of the armed, whose smile demands and whose frown punishes? A Zombie State is one that is dependent upon war, the subjugation of others, threat and fear


    20. His mother never punishes him

    21. The machine punishes me severely


    22. And instead of protecting and rewarding you… it either ignores and neglects you if you conform… or it punishes you for the sin of not conforming


    23. It rewards the criminals and punishes the honest


    24. God that punishes him


    25. to commit a crime against her husband, and he punishes


    26. supposes that God punishes sinners eternally for sins committed in this brief and frail life is


    27. A Scandal Against The Almighty: "For were a woman to commit a crime against her husband, and he punishes


    28. surely the assumption that out doctrine supposes that God punishes


    29. and he punishes her by holding her hand in the fire until the flesh burned off the bones, he would


    30. “It makes you wonder if she punishes herself because it’s less than what others will give

    31. He is a ruthless god and punishes his followers for his own amusement


    32. something, and then punishes her for refusing


    33. In the mental anguish version of Hell for sins after death, Hell is not a place but a state of mind, of anguish caused by separation from God, the sinner punishes himself after death; it is not God that punishes him, but where are all the sinners that are punishing themselves? If they are not in Heaven or Hell, where are they? Alexander Campbell: "The sinner's suffering by mental agony, produced by sin, greater than could be caused by material fire," "Five discourses on Hell" 1848


    34. surely the assumption that our doctrine supposes that God punishes sinners eternally for sins committed in this brief and frail life is wholly gratuitous


    35. A Scandal Against The Almighty: "For were a woman to commit a crime against her husband, and he punishes her by holding her hand in the fire until the flesh burned off the bones, he would be pronounced one of the most cruel beings in the world; and if he were to escape justice, he would be hunted as a wild beast; and when brought to trial and condemned, he would be pronounced worthy of thrice the punishment that the law could inflict


    36. It is no concern of yours whether He redeems them or punishes them


    37. He forgives whom He wills, and He punishes whom He wills


    38. Do you not know that to God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth? He punishes whom He wills, and He forgives whom He wills


    39. He punishes whom He wills, and He grants mercy to whom He wills, and to Him you will be restored


    40. He forgives whomever He wills, and He punishes whomever He wills

    41. On that Day, none will punish as He punishes


    42. John Kent, "For were a woman to commit a crime against her husband, and he punishes her by holding her hand in the fire until the flesh burned off the bones, he would be pronounced one of the most cruel beings in the world; and if he were to escape justice, he would be hunted as a wild beast; and when brought to trial and condemned, he would be pronounced worthy of thrice the punishment that the law could inflict


    43. When a democracy which is thirsting for freedom has evil cup-bearers presiding over the feast, and has drunk too deeply of the strong wine of freedom, then, unless her rulers are very amenable and give a plentiful draught, she calls them to account and punishes them, and says that they are cursed oligarchs


    44. It would clearly be inappropriate and unconstitutional to inflict further significant punishment without an official trial by one’s peers, though the convicted government official is still subject to a subsequent trial in the same court system that tries and exonerates or punishes all American citizens


    45. "See," said he, "my dear friend, how God punishes the most thoughtless and unfeeling men for their indifference, by presenting dreadful scenes to their view


    46. He had gone through the frightful education of social life, of that world where in one evening more crimes are committed in thought and speech than justice ever punishes at the assizes; where jests and clever sayings assassinate the noblest ideas; where no one is counted strong unless his mind sees clear: and to see clear in that world is to believe in


    47. Imagine a completely crazy teacher in a classroom, who without any rhyme or reason randomly screams at some students, ignores some, rewards a few, and punishes others


    48. This is a problem for traders, because the market is like this teacher; it often rewards incorrect behaviors and punishes perfectly correct actions


    49. Just because you have access to a market and can execute effectively does not mean that you can profit in an environment that immediately punishes any errors or inaccuracies


    50. These will avail ye nought! Nor will a Golden Ball within the Privy Place (tho’ some Italian Libertines avow ’twill serve), nor is it true, as the Spaniards believe, that passionate Coitus prevents Fruitfulness an’ Excess of Voluptuousness so punishes the Womb that ’twill not bear











    1. proved too much for her to handle, and instead of punishing him, she chose to look


    2. ‘Do you think that God is punishing us?’


    3. returned, Aetes had little interest in punishing me


    4. Raven raised his eyebrows in disbelief, but before he could speak, Andre continued, “The prison sentence is more about consoling the public than it is about punishing the offender


    5. by accelerating, the effect on the human body was punishing


    6. had not just come through the punishing ordeal of the shift


    7. The pirate had figured Cheeryup would have tired by now and chosen to hide rather than keep up her punishing pace


    8. He was a brutal slave owner, breaking up slave families, selling off disobedient slaves, and punishing slaves severely, even publicly stating that slaves needed to be kept in line with whipping


    9. Essentially Johnson threw away most of what Unionist fought the Civil War for, ending slavery and punishing treason


    10. Meanwhile, she lashed out with accusation that Beth was punishing her for stealing the money when she refused a drug she could have self-injected

    11. Pain and indignation may have blinded momentarily the Spanish voters, but by punishing the government, in fact they have also congratulated, applauded and emboldened those perverse terrorists whose only purpose consists in causing devastation and eliminating lives


    12. The term can mean anything from business interests to the need for military bases to simply punishing any nation that does not agree with the US government


    13. He just knew that God was punishing him for stealing that apple pie


    14. Why are you punishing me this way? ¿Por qué me castigas así?


    15. What did I do wrong? Maybe I was too excited about it and life is punishing me


    16. They may even ask questions like: “why is God punishing me?” One of the biggest reasons for this is the false church with her false teachers whom make you practise and believe in a religion which is totally in vain!


    17. You cannot harm or punish another without harming or punishing yourself


    18. Evil has become their habit, very difficult to change them, only to find their weaknesses, punishing evil evil


    19. 30 Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions, serpents, and the sword punishing the wicked to destruction


    20. Ariana: Elijah has gone mad with anger and he is punishing my sister with no cause

    21. Why was I continuing this ordeal, punishing myself so very severely, not calling it a day, I am at loss to explain


    22. But then an image of my brother appeared in my mind, and every cell in my body angrily reacted to the words I was about to bring onto my lips, punishing me, hating me for what I was about to say


    23. But here is my question: what if there were another neighbourhood that had even less wealth and a lower standard of living than our attackers? And what if that poorer neighbourhood were also to suffer from the Fourier complex and thus decide to punish our attackers the same way they are punishing us? In life, inequality of all sorts will always exist


    24. think there was some superior being punishing us with the ash in


    25. An awful lot of our friends thought that God was punishing


    26. terrible and hurtful that she is punishing me by removing herself


    27. He was punishing me


    28. God is punishing me for not wanting her,” Emma said while sobbing on her bed


    29. 3 Whom when the tyrant beheld encircling their mother as in a dance he was pleased at them; and being struck with their becoming and ingenuous mien smiled on them and calling them near said: 4 O youths with favourable feelings I admire the beauty of each of you; and greatly honouring so numerous a band of brethren I not only counsel you not to share the madness of the old man who has been tortured before 5 but I do beg you to yield and to enjoy my friendship; for I possess the power not only of punishing those who disobey my commands but of doing good to those who obey them


    30. punishing myself without his presence

    31. That way we won’t feel worthy enough to come to God, or are fearful of Him punishing us


    32. He knew it would not be long before the desertions began and punishing deserters would also deal a huge blow to the men’s morale, because seeing a comrade’s feet swinging from a jib is not the best way to keep a credible fighting force in check


    33. Many have often mistaken reaping consequences of sin, for God punishing them


    34. The mother will never stop making us feeling guilty and punishing us,


    35. I sobbed and cursed, believing that God was punishing me for my past sins; that,


    36. Aborting now would be punishing an innocent life for


    37. Do you have faith in your GOD in heaven? Do you believe he is a punishing GOD or a loving GOD? Do you believe he has no power to control the


    38. There is no need in me punishing you my son


    39. It was the old variation of the original sin thing: you had to prove yourself worthy by purifying and punishing your soul


    40. Zeus was punishing the whole camp because of me

    41. Basically, people withhold forgiveness as if they are punishing their villains


    42. In a punishing assault, he brutally raped her, the pain of the


    43. Most teachers cope with the fear of losing control and being asked questions they can't answer by rewarding obsequiousness and punishing individuality, turning their charges into the sort of lick-spittle employees most employers want


    44. He accepted that if you put your finger in the fire you’ll get burnt, but where was the justice in punishing a simple mistake with a lifelong curse?


    45. We had the choice of calling the cops or punishing the evil people ourselves


    46. I couldn’t sustain such a punishing schedule even when I was younger


    47. ‘For a while, ragged groups of humans eked out miserable existences on useless land; fighting, worshipping their malevolent gods, punishing dissidents—carrying on as humans always have


    48. Her scowl turned more threatening as she rattled the vial with a punishing shake


    49. If the act involves force or coercion, many states prosecute the offender under the separate statutes punishing child molestation or aggravated rape


    50. In my heart, Teacher, I agree with you, but in my head I still think that if I had been Jacob, I would have enjoyed punishing those rude fellows who presumed to attack you just because they thought you would not defend yourself












































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    Synonyms for "punish"

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    "punish" definitions

    impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on