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Example sentences for: punishes

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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.
Meanwhile, Israeli closure of the PA's borders further punishes the Palestinian economy.
Our heroine punishes herself because she yielded to temptation, a temptation that was probably more alluring in the early 1980s than it is today.
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."