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Simple sentences
He deserves punishment.
What's my punishment?
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
An overwhelming majority voted to abolish the brutal punishment.
Isn't that the most humane punishment for criminals?
The punishment should be in proportion to the crime.
I will abolish capital punishment.
Many countries have abolished capital punishment.
A person who steals deserves punishment.
He deserves the punishment.
She took the punishment with a smile.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Ignorance does not protect against punishment.
In some countries, the punishment for treason can be life in prison.
The trend of public opinion is against corporal punishment.
You can teach good manners to children without resorting to punishment.
Their punishment was harsh, but just.
The prouder the individual, the harsher the punishment.
In my family, the punishment for lying was severe.
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Is this.. the punishment for my sins?
I'm a glutton for punishment.
No sentence, no punishment, no revenge, could ever come close to making up for what you've done.
The pious gave themselves up to many a regrettable self-punishment.
You're gluttons for punishment.
What punishment has been decreed?
You women sure take a lot of punishment.
The publishers did not see that my purpose was to write a moral lesson of the punishment that befell a mortal man who dared to emulate God.
I will decide your punishment when you're fit to receive it.
And tomorrow we will assemble to watch him receive punishment for cowardice and insubordination. Mr Cole.
Punishment, condign punishment. or else the end of civilization altogether.
It's God's punishment.
To apologize and accept punishment?
What should be their punishment?
Punishment for their betrayal.
The worst punishment, Chapo.
A couple of nights, and the punishment will be over.
You'd think I'd get some satisfaction out of that, but I don't because nothing. No sentence, no punishment, no revenge, could ever come close to making up for what you've done.
Order on the renewal of capital punishment.
I deserve punishment far more than you do.
And if a man shall molest a woman captive against her will. he, too, shall receive the same punishment.
Mr. Christian, pipe the ship's company at five bells to witness punishment.
We'll proceed with punishment.
Punishment counted out, sir.
John Mayer must definitely receive his punishment.
Because nothing. no sentence, no punishment, no revenge could ever come close to making up for what you've done.
This is punishment for fooling with robots.
But he needs punishment.
You deserve severe punishment, but there's no need to punish an amateur like you.
Then prepare to suffer your punishment.
Then she decided Paul killed her brother, was going to escape punishment but even then she played along.
That's punishment for my sins.
No one can escape his just punishment.
And six deaths as punishment.
News and current affairs
For thousands of years, humans have relied on education, persuasion, social institutions, and the threat of real (or supernatural) punishment to make people behave decently.
Israel's blockade amounts to collective punishment.
With such vicious cycles of crime, punishment and dis-investment in poor communities it is no surprise that the prison population has expanded to such an extent.
How should it be judged by those attempting to end the practice of exempting from punishment government officials guilty of monstrous crimes?
First, one should consider the severity of the crimes committed by those who would escape punishment.
Such a course would not please those whose underlying desire is regime change, not disarmament or punishment.
The problem for the regime is that the springs that nourish fanaticism will not be dammed by such exemplary punishment.
China's decision to execute the head of its drug regulatory agency has rekindled international debate about capital punishment.
Supporters of capital punishment usually put forward three arguments to justify state-sanctioned killing of those who take the life of another.
Then there is a utilitarian argument: capital punishment deters many criminals from murder.
First, in a modern democracy, punishment must be not only retributive, but should also try to rehabilitate the criminal in order to enable him to live in society with other human beings.
In their view, capital punishment serves at least to restrain the homicidal leanings of human beings.
It was a representative of the Age of Reason, Cesare Beccaria, who first advocated in 1764, in a few pages of a seminal booklet, the abolition of capital punishment.
Nowadays, it is associations such as Amnesty International and Hands Off Cain that push states to abolish capital punishment.
How can we ignore that a high number of inmates commit suicide - self-inflicted capital punishment - to escape the inhumanity of their imprisonment?
How can we ignore that many states today kill not only through legal punishment, but also by murdering and massacring in international or civil wars, or by allowing starvation?
Israel's blockade amounts to collective punishment. It is hurting all of us, whether we support Hamas or not.
In simple language: forget about any punishment or automatic trigger mechanisms that might affect a country's sovereignty.
Meanwhile, in China, Xi has gained considerable confidence through his massive anti-corruption campaign, with the punishment of top military officers indicating that he has solidified his control over the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
Third, as usual, Israel has accused of anti-Semitism those who have dared to criticize its disproportionate response to Hamas's indefensible rocket attacks and its collective punishment of Palestinians.
The best democratic punishment for politicians is not to re-elect them.