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Example sentences for: punish

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Unsurprisingly, Bennett's project in The Death of Outrage is to stiffen America's backbone, to persuade us to care about Clinton's misdeeds and to punish them.
They want laws that punish them as full-fledged adults.
The House ethics committee cautioned House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, that House members may not use their offices to punish organizations for financial transactions with political parties.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the army incursion and the preceding two weeks of air raids were necessary to punish Islamic militants for recent bombings in Russia and to prevent the militants from invading Dagestan.
Deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was corrupt, using his power to punish political enemies and undermine independent government institutions.