Word: punished
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...foreign policy. The White House apparently believes the public will not understand decisions taken for hard- boiled reasons of national interest; it thinks those reasons must be given a pious cloak. The U.S. launched the gulf war in part to safeguard oil supplies, in part to protect allies and punish a naked act of aggression -- all of which should have been moral enough. But Bush in addition preached a crusade against a demonized butcher of Baghdad, as if Washington would settle for nothing short of Saddam's departure or demise. That no doubt encouraged Iraqi rebels to expect help...
...again brought out. First he drags it suggestively in front of her throat. Then he gives it to her explaining that she should kill herself. An argument ensues during which the crying Duchess is held in a choke hold. In the second act one brother locks her up to punish her for essentially remarrying after her husband's death. Meanwhile, the other brother arranges for her to be strangled to death...
...unfounded fear that it detracts from the macho image and takes the fun out of putting the bad guys in jail," says Carolyn Robison, a Tulsa police major. A lot of officers just don't like walking. For years, being assigned to the beat was a standard way to punish officers...
Life under non-Kurdish rulers has not been easy. Teaching the Kurdish language is prohibited in Iranian and Syrian schools. In Turkey singing a Kurdish ditty can bring a jail term. Syria has revoked the citizenship of many of its Kurds to punish their rebelliousness. Iraq has expelled tens of thousands of Kurds from their homes, and in 1988 gassed the town of Halabja, killing 5,000 people. The world community scarcely took notice...
...conflict with the community's prevailing opinion. Where it is taboo to debate the moral fitness of homosexuals as parents, and sexist to order a Domino's pizza because the chain's chairman donates money to an antiabortion group. Imagine institutions that insist they absolutely defend free speech but punish the airing of distasteful views by labeling them unacceptable "behavior" instead of words -- and then expel the perpetrators...