Words similar to punishment

Example sentences for: punishment

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The judicial system's tendency to mark the odd innocent soul for death is, after all, one of the more powerful arguments against capital punishment.
Jesse Helms, R-N.C., is leading the charge to restrict trade with China as punishment for its spying.
The ambiguity is intentional: Visits to prostitutes are not reasons for a court-martial, but long-term affairs and affairs between soldiers are considered dangerous and deserving of punishment.
David Plotz's piece "The Case for Community Service for Clinton" advances an excellent analysis of the political requirements for an acceptable punishment to accompany censure, if indeed censure is chosen in lieu of impeachment.
Of course civil disobedience--breaking the law (and taking the punishment)--is a valid, even noble, way to dramatize iniquity and create pressure for change.