Words similar to punishment

Example sentences for: punishment

How can you use “punishment” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But the paper commented that legislators might decide that, in Russia's current economic circumstances, it is too expensive to provide juries to all the country's courts and that therefore capital punishment should be banned altogether.
Pundits agreed that the GOP won the battle and lost the war: Gingrich's ethics case will drag on through congressional hearings; the GOP will then force the House Ethics Committee to close the case, enabling Democrats to cry "cover-up" for months afterward; members will have to vote again on his punishment; he'll be distracted, tarnished, and weakened; having lost prestige and twisted arms just to get re-elected, he'll have no clout left to keep his troops in line; the Republican policy agenda will languish; Gingrich will be forced to make concessions to Clinton in order to pass legislation and repair his own image; and, above all, Democrats will sing from Gingrich's rap sheet throughout the coming hearings on Clinton's ethical troubles.
Leuchter set about making capital punishment more "humane."
The article chronicles RCC's elaborate attempts to escape punishment, employing no less than two former U.S.
Punishment theories authorize communities to isolate or purge the “impure”—people whose illness or imagined “sinfulness” would contaminate the whole—while reassuring that virtue and social status will protect the righteous.