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Meanwhile, Israeli closure of the PA's borders further punishes the Palestinian economy.
But, say USAT and the WP , many Democrats, including President Clinton, think the bill punishes people who've fallen on hard times while not holding the credit card issuers responsible for promiscuous marketing.
Female recruits have been routinely raped, humiliated, and harassed, but they rarely complain, because the military punishes few male offenders.
Boycotts lower corporate profits, which punishes not the discriminatory management but the innocent stockholders--that is, not the sinners, but their victims.
He did nothing about scandals at the FSB (the successor agency to the KGB) when he was its director, and "[a]s prime minister, his only claim to fame has been to seize upon a truly bad situation in Chechnya as an excuse to wage an imperial war, one that punishes civilians in the name of protecting them."