Word: punish
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...past, we could only condemn it as being against moral standards and punish it using food sanitation laws." MO WENXIU, vice-chairwoman of the All-China Women's Federation, praising new legislation which bans the practice of serving food on the bodies of scantily clad women...
...Ellison, the assistant dean of Harvard College and secretary of the Ad Board, says the Ad Board will not punish a student for simply smoking marijuana. In the two cases last year in which the board did take action, Ellison said, drugs were only part of the offense and were not the complete reason for punishment...
...Even when lambasting hostile regimes like Syria and Iran, Rice tries to add a few words of sympathy for the people of those nations. She wants people on the street to know, says an aide, that the U.S. isn?t trying to punish the entire nation for the transgressions of the leadership. That?s why Rice, speaking at an international conclave on democracy in Bahrain Saturday, departed from her usual rhetoric about Syrian support of terrorism to accuse the regime of abusing its own people. She cited Syria?s recent arrest of dissident Kamal Labwani. Afterwards, she told associates...
...Saddam and his lieutenants have refused offers of protection from the U.S. and Iraqi governments, believing it would compromise their independence. Instead, the Iraqi Bar Association wants 15 personal bodyguards for each of the lawyers-of their own choosing-and assurances from the government that they will find and punish the assassins, and, until that time, has called for the defense team to boycott the trial. It's too late for al-Zubeidi; his execution, without a trial, came today...
...well. I completely understand what men say in the heat of battle because I spent a year in combat myself. But slowly American troops will weed out the enemy, and as its desperation grows, we will continue to stride ahead with confidence and assurance, knowing we will punish those who dared to mess with our country, an America we have sworn to protect. Albert Shepard, Sergeant, U.S. Army Camp Navistar, Kuwait...