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Example sentences for: punishments

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

She favored alternative punishments, longed to help troubled kids, worried about Draconian anti-immigration policy, and disliked the death penalty, mandatory minimum sentences, and the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity.
Here's one, from criminologist John DiIulio: "There is so much crime without punishment in America today because recent generations of social and political elites, both liberal and conservative, have liberated themselves from the belief that criminals are free moral agents and that publicly sanctioned punishments are what they justly deserve."
But this caveat has a countercaveat: The prospect of future punishments gives you an incentive to investigate the corporation's history before you buy, which improves the chance that bad behavior can be uncovered while the actual perpetrators can still be punished.
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.
The White House spin: Clemency is about justice, and the prisoners' punishments did not fit their crimes.