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Example sentences for: punishes

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Boycotts lower corporate profits, which punishes not the discriminatory management but the innocent stockholders--that is, not the sinners, but their victims.
The hero, Peter (Ron Livingston), an engineer at a generic software company, is suffocating under his boss, Lunbergh (Gary Cole), a dictator who punishes underlings from behind a strenuously mellow affect--each demand or rebuke prefaced by a seemingly upbeat "Yyyyeah."
Our heroine punishes herself because she yielded to temptation, a temptation that was probably more alluring in the early 1980s than it is today.
Meanwhile, Israeli closure of the PA's borders further punishes the Palestinian economy.
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."