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Example sentences for: punish

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The explanation is widely held to be that Fogleman thought the Air Force general in charge of security at the barracks in Saudi Arabia bombed by terrorists last year was blameless but that Fogleman's boss, Secretary of Defense William Cohen, is likely to punish him.
One thing that is plain from the brief unhappy history of campus speech codes is that you automatically raise the value of the speech you punish and depress the value of the speech you sponsor.
He asked whether Chinese bad behavior would ever deserve sanctions: Would Bush want to punish them if they doubled the number of slave-labor camps?
Nature continued to punish the Pacific Northwest.
All but seven states punish both people involved.