What's the difference between bookshelf and penalize?

Bookshelf


Definition:

  • (n.) A shelf to hold books.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His paperback, PWA: Looking Aids in the Face, is one of the most inspiring books I have on my bookshelf.
  • (2) I have a photo of him on my bookshelf, blowing a raspberry, wearing a Stetson and sticking two fingers up.
  • (3) At one point it looks as if he's tumbling backwards, but he defies gravity and makes it to the bookshelf, propelled by simple belief.
  • (4) When I heard that she had died, I promptly went back to my bookshelf and spent my Saturday night re-reading From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler, and it was, if anything, even more wonderful than I remembered.
  • (5) Abdel Fattah believes her son will return to the family's flat, down an unpaved back alley in Cairo's Zeitoun district, where his framed portrait sits on top of a bookshelf, when he completes his sentence.
  • (6) Don't get me wrong: I would like more than anyone to see the report consigned, as the learned judge feared, to a middle bookshelf in an academic's office.
  • (7) The British public is accustomed to the sight of celebrity chefs competing for column inches, TV airtime and prime bookshelf space, but yesterday new battlelines were drawn as domestic goddess Nigella Lawson launched her iPhone app, putting her in direct competition with Jamie Oliver.
  • (8) Brandis – who spent more than $15,000 of taxpayer’s money to build a new bookshelf in his parliament house office in 2014 – said he did not believe that the science of climate change was settled but he knew how to follow a logical argument.
  • (9) "I think it's a great delivery method for all kinds of authors and artists to explore and be seen in, not the bookshelf of a Walmart that the old guidelines turned it into."
  • (10) An occupational health "bookshelf" reference list is appended.
  • (11) On the right, on a bookshelf, was a framed copy of Francis’s letter.
  • (12) Have an incredibly pricey (£1,295) bookshelf on me, Ann Clwyd.
  • (13) You can now find an Ikea glass, bookshelf or shower curtain in practically every British home.
  • (14) He doesn’t, even though he’s just finished a nice bookshelf for his London friend.
  • (15) The writer Somerset Maugham, who in 1949 announced "the subjunctive mood is in its death throes", might be surprised to see my son Freddie's bookshelf, which contains If I Were a Pig … (Jellycat Books, 2008).
  • (16) The brown-skinned glamour dolls like the one on my bookshelf are always missing.
  • (17) Applying its much-praised “documentary theatre” technique – where topics are developed through intense journalistic-style investigation – the group started off “by asking which of us had read it and who had a copy lurking at the back of a bookshelf or in their attic”, Haug said.
  • (18) Praise God, I live a stable life, and God has blessed me with a pious wife, and she has blessed me with a son who I gave your name, Usamah, and a daughter who I named after the mother, Khayriyah.” Osama bin Laden's bookshelf: Noam Chomsky, Bob Woodward, and jihad Read more Khadijh, one of Bin Laden’s daughters, describes the difficulties of communicating with the world’s most wanted man.
  • (19) Pete wondered if he'd stumbled into a parallel universe when he saw a copy of On Being A Jewish Feminist on my bookshelf.
  • (20) But this relative impotence is no excuse for failing to hammer home the point that our universities are being forced down, in the title of a famous book by Friedrich Hayek (perhaps on the bookshelf of the higher education minister, Jo Johnson?

Penalize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make penal.
  • (v. t.) To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) According to the Howard League for Penal Reform, which is backing the legal challenge, every year 75,0000 17-year-olds are held in custody.
  • (2) The instrument is a definite aid to the surgeon, and does not penalize the time required for surgery.
  • (3) The Federal Penal Service rejected a request from Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova to serve their remaining time in Moscow; given the high profile nature of their case, they are afraid for their safety in the communal environment of a correctional colony.
  • (4) Two remarks from previous analyses are then made: the underestimation of the factor of depression in the homicidal act; and the need for reforming the practice of penal psychiatric survey.
  • (5) The introduction in 1968 of the legal concept of Grave Abnormal into the penal code, Development of the Personality Amounting to a Disorder made possible criminal exculpation on the basis of psychosocial maldevelopment.
  • (6) Instead, the situation has deteriorated: rehearsals for the piece began on the day the Russian authorities finally produced confirmation that Tolokonnikova had been admitted to the medical wing of a Siberian penal colony , following a three-week transit period during which her family and legal representatives were denied any information of her whereabouts.
  • (7) A comparative analysis of the cases indicates that penal care measures are predominantly effective in those cases where the delinquents are subjected to intensive expert diagnosis, therapeutic care and vocational counselling and vocational aidmeasures at the commencement, during and subsequent to their respective periods of confinement.
  • (8) Now boos ring round the stadium as the resultant free kick causes some chaos in the box and Seattle are penalized for Zach Scott holding.
  • (9) There are currently about 750 babies in Russia's penal colonies living in mini-detachment blocks.
  • (10) Oleg Sentsov should make new films, not count years in prison.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Oleg Sentsov sings the Ukrainian national anthem as he is sentenced to 20 years in a Russian penal colony Sentsov attracted the ire of the Russian authorities after helping to organise a campaign protesting at Russia’s occupation and annexation of Crimea in March 2014.
  • (11) Whether in civil, penal or administrative law, it supposes the notion of liability.
  • (12) As part of this they investigate “the reasons for the establishment of one or more British colonies such as a penal colony (for example Moreton Bay, Van Diemen’s Land) or a colony that later became a state (for example Western Australia, Victoria)”.
  • (13) Civil legislation (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch = BGB) as well as the penal code (Strafgesetzbuch = StGB) contain a broad spectrum of laws to protect children against physical abuse, physical neglect, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and neglect: i.e.
  • (14) The 29 people arrested are reportedly facing charges of joining an unlawful assembly under section 143 of the penal code, which carries a maxiumum 20-year jail term.
  • (15) When the justice secretary took to the airwaves yesterday , his purpose was more serious – to blow a gale through a generation of failed thinking on prisons, a failure that started the moment Clarke last lost control of penal policy.
  • (16) Common to both perspectives is the implicit recognition that certain rules will be followed and that penalties will ensue when they are not, or, at the very least, that the prospect of penality will serve as a deterrent.
  • (17) The responses reveal that coaches disapprove and even sanction players receiving too many useless penalties, but occasionally congratulate them for a penalized action executed to save a goal.
  • (18) Cocos, the remote emerald tip of a towering underwater mountain range which was the setting for the fictional Isla Nublar in the novel Jurassic Park, has served as a pirate hideaway, whaling station, penal colony and a pit stop for Colombian drug runners.
  • (19) It would take much political courage and social confidence to spread the penal philosophy of Bastoy outside Norway, however.
  • (20) Previous studies have shown older people to be especially penalized by divided attention situations, but the generality of this finding was recently challenged by Somberg and Salthouse (1982).