Word: punish
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...terrorist, then the Israelis have a problem that's not going to be solved by walls and security checks. Not all Palestinians are hostile to Israel. Most are interested in a peaceful life, in raising their children. A few believe in violence, but Israel can't punish all Palestinians just because of a few. At the same time, Palestinians shouldn't generalize about all Israelis based on a few settlers and extremists. But with these punishments at the checkpoints, it's very difficult. We feel humiliated. When I see that sign "Peace Be With You," I wonder: What kind...
...country and a regime that has been pounding at Lebanon with assassinations and explosions after explosions and killings after killings, which have been going on for over 30 years," Saad Hariri told TIME in an exclusive interview in his heavily guarded home in Beirut. "It is important to punish those who commit these crimes, for them to understand they don't have a license to kill. And if this tribunal doesn't happen, then the international community will have given a license to kill to the regime of [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad and to Bashar al-Assad himself...
...World War II, his parents were killed in a Nazi air strike and he and Mischa were held for possible ransom by looters. Near starvation and desperate for food, the looters killed, cooked and devoured the girl. The suggestion is that Lecter's life became a twisted mission to punish all malefactors and dispose of them exactly as his sister...
...Optimists who believe the talks may actually get somewhere this time say the basic tension underlying the Bush Administration's stance toward North Korea - does it want a nuclear deal with Pyongyang or does it seek to punish it via isolation and sanctions - has been resolved. As a senior Administration official told TIME in mid December, "Our clear priority is reaching an agreement for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula...
Even if personal boycotts are economically ineffective, they still make a statement of what we as consumers will and will not tolerate. In the long term, the most productive and effective boycotts do not merely attempt to punish companies for their exploitation by robbing them of their profits. Instead, they should collectively compel companies to actually change their practices by demonstrating what consumers will not tolerate, and more importantly, what price increases they will tolerate to “pay for” more humane business practices...