punishes in English

verb
1
inflict a penalty or sanction on (someone) as retribution for an offense, especially a transgression of a legal or moral code.
I have done wrong and I'm being punished for it
synonyms:disciplineteach someone a lessontan someone's hidewallopcome down on (like a ton of bricks)
verb

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1. Anger punishes itself.

2. After her defeat, Estelle punishes Barbary for her actions

3. Thus the crisis punishes the frugal more than the profligate.

4. The Warrior punishes those who believe themselves beyond the reach of justice.

5. John’s Bulldozes academic freedom, punishes professor for posing question about ‘Columbian Exchange’ by FIRE

6. Incitingly demodulates enjoinments titillate uncomplicated pivotally, amphictyonic plied Samuel punishes ingratiatingly Brambliest applicabilities.

7. All I know is that Gao punishes people who try to fight her.

8. If a state punishes a murderer by death it's an eye for an eye.

9. 23 He himself does nothing wrong yet he still punishes himself for other's wrong doings.

10. As she becomes angrier and punishes Ram, it is the wronged daughter who seems loathsome.

11. We must return to an economic environment that rewards, not punishes, our best and brightest for pursuing transformative ideas.

12. Chaffs focuses on the hypocrisy that punishes others for what those in power do routinely

13. 4 Jehovah is not like an unfeeling judge who simply punishes his servants each time they slip.

14. Jehovah’s Witnesses somehow accept that the State punishes persons not yielding to the demands of the State.

15. And maybe, just maybe, that awareness could coalesce into a market force that rewards openness and accountability, and punishes arbitrary, high-handed behaviour.

16. John they have designed the snare, sets at the deathtrap, but the young man punishes by death the chief criminal.

17. Chaotic good can be a dangerous alignment when it disrupts the order of society and punishes those who do well for themselves.

18. The Comorian Criminal Code punishes exploitation of or sexual violence against minors (article 323), the abandonment of children, and desertion (articles 340-350).

19. 7 The legal system currently punishes the most egregious forms of child abuse and neglect, but such crimes are difficult to prove.

20. I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling —which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes —can be called socialism.

21. In this view the whistle blower is the defender of the organization's true values and the management that punishes the behavior is the deviant.

22. 30 I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling —which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes —can be called socialism.

23. But what remains constant is the fact that he is a creature who punishes children for their misbehaviour.Boogeyman or Bogeyman was used (is still used) to basically instil fear and sometimes the Devil was related to him.

24. Title # of the Criminal Code, “Crimes and offences against private individuals”, defines and punishes the crimes of intentional homicide (murder), intentional homicide with premeditation and malice aforethought (assassination), infanticide, poisoning and crimes and offences involving intentional assault and battery

25. In addition, there is an adage in extradition regime, which states “aut dedere aut judiciare” (to extradite or to punish) which means that if the requested State refuses to extradite the person sought, the requested State shall tries and punishes the said person in accordance with its national law.

26. Annoying or Accosting Persons of the Opposite Sex Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 272, Section 53, punishes those who, with offensive and disorderly acts or language accost or annoy persons of the opposite sex with imprisonment of up to 6 months in the House of Corrections.

27. Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls and Consular Agents, citizens of the State by which they are appointed, shall be exempt from preliminary arrest except in the case of offences which the local legislation qualifies as crimes and punishes as such; they shall be exempt from military Billetings, from service in the regular army or navy, in

28. More concretely, the added articles are: a) article 124/d, “Maltreatment of Minors”, which among the others punishes the phenomenon of exploitation of children for compulsory work, begging and other compulsory services; b) addenda to paragraph in article 117, “Pornography”, which treats the pornography with minors; c) addenda to article 128/d, “Trafficking of Minors” which penalizes by Law not only recruitment, concealing, reception, etc., but also the sale of minors.

29. The Criminal Code penalizes and punishes the actions of abetting, assisting or protecting the prostitution of others, sharing in the proceeds of the prostitution of others or procuring others for the purposes of prostitution, or employing, maintaining or inciting a minor or adult, even with his or her consent, to engage in prostitution, or acting as an intermediary in any form in such acts, by a term of imprisonment of one to five years and a fine of 5,000 to 1 million dirhams (article 498 of the Criminal Code, amended by Act No. 2403 on reform of the Criminal Code).