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Example sentences for: punishments

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This implies standards and testing: If you're going to have a system of rewards and punishments, you have to have some way to judge who deserves which.
You would need to show that the racial breakouts of punishments are disproportionate, not to the racial composition of the student bodies, but to the racial composition of the rule breakers .
She put up with petty bad stuff too, like the constant carping of her male colleagues about her lack of a gentle touch, or the punishments doled out by the writers for her--a single mother--occasional forays into romance.
In the 13 th century, courts commonly required custodians to serve defendants' punishments in their stead when their wards skipped, even if this meant standing in for a hanging.
The papers describe various last minute scenarios being floated at the White House, none of them having yet obtained presidential imprimatur: a televised address, and various alternative punishments, including the proposal of a post-impeachment Senate censure made in yesterday's NYT by Bob Dole.