Word: condign
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...lives of the hostages are important and they should be rescued if possible. But their sacrifice may be, as it often has been, the price of empire. The primary consideration is to visit upon Iran such a condign punishment that neither that country nor the rest of the world will forget the lesson in ten generations...
...only twelve, round-faced Doris Ann Hall of Hudson, N.C. had worked her way up to the finals of the National Spelling Bee, put on each year in Washington, D.C. by the Scripps-Howard newspapers. But that time, with 30 other contestants still left, she had muffed the word condign and gone down to defeat. This year, when she found that she was to be in the finals, she made up her mind: she was going...
...will give up superiority in a gradual, step-by-step procedure if other nations sign the ADA charter-and if, in matters covered by the charter, they give up the one-power veto which now prevents penalizing any member of the Big Five unless all concur. Baruch proposed "condign punishments" for violations, which would be "stigmatized as international crimes." and he said that punishment must not be avoided by means of a veto...
...penal servitude for "shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm," Mr. Justice Wright said: "It would be an unfortunate thing for this country if the use of firearms became common. I feel it the duty of this court to visit such conduct as the prisoner's with condign punishment. I hope the sentence will have some effect in deterring others from carrying loaded revolvers when pursuing their vocation of burglary." (London bobbies, pursuing their vocations, do not ordinarily carry firearms.) Gouty peers, ruffling through the London Evening Standard learned last week that: "Gunmen have struck terror into...
...Lady Astor asked, amid cheers, that a committee of inquiry be set up for the purpose of repealing the law under which the police arrest women for soliciting. She observed that, if a man were charged with annoying women, evidence of the persons annoyed was required to effect his condign punishment...