Word: punish
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...Donaldson resign? The Bush nominee, above right, often clashed with two fellow Republicans on the commission who thought he was too keen to regulate and punish. During his tenure, the SEC levied hefty fines against corporate transgressors and, among other things, established a rule requiring that mutual funds have chairmen independent from the firms they oversee...
Gross wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson yesterday that the CUE chose not to punish students who neglected to submit evaluations, opting instead to “appeal to the important role students play in evaluating all forms of teaching...
...dispense with the mythology right up front. A driver's license has never been just about driving. When the first ones were issued in the early 1900s, the idea was to collect fees, not to test driving skills. More recently, revoking licenses became a way to punish people who didn't pay child support or, in Wisconsin, shovel snow off their walks. In its most coveted form, the license is proof of age--or of fraud, as the case may be. In college, for example, I was not Amanda Ripley from New Jersey; I was Amanda Jones from California...
SENFRONIA THOMPSON, Texas state representative, protesting her colleagues' focus on passing a bill authorizing the education department to punish schools for allowing "overtly sexually suggestive" cheerleading routines at sports events
...doubt the legality of this method, but international law sanctions humanitarian intervention. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to which 133 states are party (including the United States), actually obligates states, under the auspices of the Security Council, to prevent and punish genocide when it is happening in the world...