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Example sentences for: punishing

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Although the City may generally choose to fund museums as it sees fit, it may not make funding decisions for the purpose of punishing a museum's constitutionally protected expression.
That's because the people who prefer a big chance of a small punishment go into punishing careers like construction work or coal mining instead of crime.
So punishing past corporate sins is not like fining everyone who was present when an accident occurred, but when it was reported, which seems both unfair and pointless.
It is incumbent on the House to recognise that an impeachment trial should be a way of protecting the office of president, not punishing the man."
In his otherwise useful and accurate analysis of the issues involving Elia Kazan's honorary Oscar, "," Jacob Weisberg perpetuates the myth that Hollywood has for decades been punishing Kazan by withholding laurels that would have been his had he not named names.