(n.) Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.
(n.) A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
(2) It’s not to punish the public, it’s to save the NHS and its people.” Another commenter added: “Of course they should strike.
(3) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
(4) Anwar, who was not Sanam's father, admitted to police after his arrest that he put the girl in the cupboard as punishment and said Navsarka punished her in the same way.
(5) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
(6) In many countries, male same-sex relationships are punishable by 10 years behind bars; in at least two, the penalty is death.
(7) There is a mutual interest in keeping prosperity that exists and has built over the years.” But Pisani-Ferry said Macron would certainly not seek to punish Britain.
(8) "We have Revolutionary Guards who defied orders, though they were severely punished, expelled from the force and taken to prison," he says.
(9) Initial acceleration of the DRL responding appeared to be due to adventitious punishment of collateral behavior which was observed between the bar-presses.
(10) As the last two people executed in Britain, the macabre anniversary of their deaths at Strangeways prison in Manchester and Walton prison in Liverpool is generating more publicity than their crime and punishment ever did at the time.
(11) These cases fall into two categories: situations where offspring are provided with opportunities to practice skills ("opportunity teaching"), and instances where the behavior of young is either encouraged or punished by adults ("coaching").
(12) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
(13) What punishment will Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain face?
(14) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
(15) If America can decide the punishment for Osama, why can't we decide that?"
(16) There is also the issue of fair sentencing – if a person has a violent fight in a bar and is sentenced to an IPP with a two year tariff, and then finds himself stuck in the system six years later he has received a punishment three times more severe than the crime he committed in the eyes of the court.
(17) We are determined to make sure governors have every power at their disposal to detect supply, punish those found using or dealing, and enforce a zero-tolerance approach.
(18) They ended up exceeding that margin comfortably, surging to a 14-0 lead inside the first 19 minutes and then withstanding the inevitable Samoan fightback, with the Wigan wing Pat Richards kicking four penalties to punish their growing indiscipline.
(19) Many Halifax and Bank of Scotland current account customers face a huge hike in overdraft charges, which will particularly punish those who regularly go into the red by a small amount, it emerged this week .
(20) Albion rarely threatened, though Tim Howard was alert to Shane Long's first-time shot, but had several chances to punish Everton on the counterattack late on.
Reprimand
Definition:
(n.) Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.
(n.) To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally.
(n.) To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pardew apologised for his behaviour on Saturday night and the FA is awaiting the referee's report before deciding on action against the 52-year-old, who has been fined £100,000 by Newcastle and severely reprimanded by the club .
(2) The newspaper reported that the claims "would appear to be at odds with parliamentary rules" after the former Labour minister Tony McNulty was reprimanded for allowing his parents to live in his second home, which was subsidised by the taxpayer.
(3) According to sources, the incident prompted James Harding , the director of BBC News, to send a note reprimanding Paxman for his public criticism of the corporation.
(4) It is clearly an option, and it is something that the government considers, but the way to take that option away is for the senators to pass those bills.” Muir said he did not respond well to those kinds of threats, saying that union leaders who spoke to employees in such a way would be reprimanded.
(5) It would be easy to efficiently cut him down with the word “rapist”, particularly when I will not face any reprimands for my own imperfect behaviour during the relationship.
(6) Teachers report using both reprimands and encouragement as strategies to reduce off-task behavior in the classroom.
(7) It "failed to recognise the significance" of damage to a gas fracking well in 2011 and did not report it to government officials for six months, leading to a stern reprimand by the energy minister, papers released under the Freedom of Information Act show.
(8) Reprimands proved superior to No Feedback in reducing off-task behavior, but Encouragement did not.
(9) She has allegedly received several disciplinary reprimands, including the complaint that she did not respond to a 5:30am wake-up call.
(10) I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that.
(11) "HE [Her Excellency Joyce Banda] called me this morning and reprimanded me for issuing the statement without consulting Steve, my boss," the message says.
(12) There was even an appeal judge reprimanded over a driving ban but his name seems to have slipped off the bottom of the 2012 list .
(13) A woman captured on video slapping her teenage son for taking part in the Baltimore riots, a reprimand that went viral online, won praise from the city’s police commissioner and was heralded on social media as “mum of the year”.
(14) The wanton slaughter of two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq and the severe and even lethal torture of Afghan detainees generated, at worst, shockingly short jail time for the killers and, usually, little more than letters of reprimand.
(15) Jeremy Paxman was reprimanded by the BBC's director of news over negative comments he made about the corporation before the announcement of his departure from Newsnight , it has emerged.
(16) They were subsequently informed that the victim responded with interpersonal aggression or with a verbal reprimand.
(17) He appeared to reprimand Kennedy for speaking out in a public meeting rather than raising her concerns during the private consultations that take place with major investors.
(18) The FSA warned last month that City firms faced fines and public reprimands unless they could name the individuals responsible for ensuring clients' money was kept separate from overall funds.
(19) Only those with no deductions at all, even for a minor reprimand, are allowed to go on an end-of-term trip.
(20) The results indicate that the manner in which reprimands are delivered is critical in influencing children's misbehavior, but the role of nurturance during disciplinary situations is less clear.