verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
severely
▪
What concerned us more was the news that anyone sheltering or helping escaped prisoners-of-war would be severely punished .
▪
He notes that whenever earnings problems have emerged, investors have severely punished stocks.
▪
Again, if the early screams of protest have been severely punished , regard for their own need may feel too dangerous.
▪
Belle has already been severely punished .
▪
It means inflicting an injury which would be severely punished by a court of law if it was inflicted during an argument.
▪
Anyone, even of their own number, who had harmed it would have been severely punished .
▪
She had been intercepted outside Guy's room and would be severely punished , perhaps even killed.
▪
Thorn threatened after the Van Exel incident to severely punish the next player who made physical contact with a referee.
■ NOUN
behaviour
▪
Institutionally, there are no mechanisms for punishing some one for deviant behaviour of any kind.
▪
The butcher chases them off the rock with kicks and abusive shouts, as though punishing them for bad behaviour .
child
▪
Another Tory, David Evans, said parents should be punished if their children offend.
▪
The moral way to resolve the problem is to keep people from entering rather than punishing their children once they are here.
▪
Do threats to punish the child remain unfulfilled?
▪
So I fell on my knees and asked them not to punish the child any more.
▪
Ask teachers not to ignore, reject, or punish your child .
crime
▪
We don't punish people for crimes if they are insane, because we have decided that they can't help it.
▪
If so, it makes good sense that Zezolla is not punished for crimes she only imagined.
▪
Then they led Linkworth to the hanging-shed to punish him for his crime .
▪
The 1995 law punishes crack cocaine crimes 100 times more severely than powder cocaine crimes, the association said.
▪
The law simply punishes individual crimes .
▪
They established a three-tier court system which had exclusive authority to punish crime .
▪
He had to be punished for the crime of being over thirty and not yet married.
▪
The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him.
law
▪
The law simply punishes individual crimes.
▪
Tampering and destruction were barred by federal law and would be punished .
▪
The purpose of the civil law is to compensate; it is the function of the criminal law to punish .
▪
The 1995 law punishes crack cocaine crimes 100 times more severely than powder cocaine crimes, the association said.
offender
▪
Tony Marlow says Britain has become too civilised and doesn't punish offenders properly.
▪
The Act aimed to boost the fairness of fines, and introduced means-related unit fines as a way of punishing young offenders .
person
▪
Damages are designed not to punish the person in breach but to compensate for the loss sustained by the plaintiff.
power
▪
Of much greater practical significance, and by no means obsolete, is the power to punish for contempt.
teacher
▪
The court acknowledged that a state may punish a teacher who disrupts schooling.
■ VERB
decide
▪
This had so infuriated Moustaine that he had decided to punish them, which meant the rest of us as well.
▪
All those products could face tariffs if Washington decided to punish the two countries.
▪
Kelly Flinn, starred in a political and military soap opera last May while the military decided how to punish her.
▪
If the Board of Higher Education had decided to punish City for its impertinence, it had succeeded admirably.
deserve
▪
Phoebe's short-lived psychiatrist boyfriend pointed this out: in Friends, any interloper, by interloping, deserved to be punished .
▪
Those not following their prescriptions deserve to be punished .
▪
We deserve to be punished because we considered ourselves over and above the deceased.
design
▪
It was not designed to punish us.
▪
Punitive damages are designed to punish and deter misconduct.
▪
Damages are designed not to punish the person in breach but to compensate for the loss sustained by the plaintiff.
▪
But the estate also is asking for punitive damages, designed to punish Simpson for his conduct.
▪
Both victims' estates have filed claims for punitive damages, which are designed to punish the killer and deter future slayings.
reward
▪
In the broadest sense, there are two such systems: rewarding circuits and punishing circuits.
▪
But they also reward or punish behavior: The deduction for charitable contributions underwrites generosity.
▪
Virtue is rewarded and vice punished .
▪
The implications of measurement to employees was that performance on something being measured would be rewarded if good and punished if bad.
▪
And the push to reward , not just punish , is echoed across the Phoenix area.
▪
How do you motivate people when there is no way to reward the efficient or punish the laggard?
▪
It was neither rewarded nor punished .
try
▪
In other societies these would be war crimes, to be tried and punished .
▪
I tried punishing him for it, but that only made it worse.
▪
Fraudulent acts would be tried as misdemeanours and punished by up to two years in prison with or without hard labour.
▪
Had this tribunal the legal power and authority to try and punish this man?
▪
I am not trying to punish you for what Steve did to Maria Luisa.
▪
She wanted no part of some one trying to punish her husband for something she obviously regarded as between him and her.
▪
How I try to punish my parents with my sharp tongue.
want
▪
They had wanted Leyland punished , that much I know, and to them, the system had failed.
▪
Suddenly, I want to punish him, to make him pay for my invisibility.
▪
So you want to punish me, do you?
▪
You can apply to my father for money if you still want to punish him for not backing you.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Deserting the army during war can be punished by death.
▪
His parents punished him for disobedience.
▪
Sanders should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
▪
She was suspended while the school decided how to punish her.
▪
The U.S. threatened to take away trading privileges as a way to punish the country for human rights violations.
▪
Two instructors were punished for harassing female students.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
He knew that if he didn't punish Oliver, his wife would never forgive him.
▪
She still refused to give up her son and instead was punished.
▪
She was always reluctant to punish him.
▪
The Court ruled that such speech could be punished even if it was not legally obscene and did not cause substantial disruption.
▪
The judge said he'd already been punished a thousand times.
▪
They were the men the politicians called when they wanted somebody transferred, promoted, punished.