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Example sentences for: punished

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Cocaine use is illegal, but as governor of Texas, he's toughened penalties for people convicted of selling or possessing less than a gram of coke (a crime previously punished by probation).
Charged with being out of touch both with popular morality and with popular taste and punished with a loss of funds, museum directors have been trying hard to demonstrate that they are not elitist, difficult, and obscure.
And those who take on thorny issues or take strong stands or-worst of all-try to find a truly honorable and principled middle ground are usually only punished for their trouble.
Why should whites who did not themselves discriminate against blacks be punished for what their or someone else's ancestors did?
"We're saying that instead of that week-and-a-half of work for a paying client, we want you to do this good, important pro bono work, and you're not going to get punished," said John Maley, who helped create the firm's policy. "