Word: punished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to punish pressure," Cormier said. "We used to use it as an offensive weapon. Now, we say, 'Phew' when we get it over and once we get it over, then we had to contend with the best half-court defense in the league...
History repeatedly warns us that human character cannot be scrubbed free of its defects through vain attempts to regulate inanimate objects such as guns. What has worked in the past, and what we see working now, are tough, N.R.A.-supported measures that punish the incorrigible minority who place themselves outside...
...William von Raab once remarked that "occasionally, they ((Noriega & Co.)) swing some poor slob out, in effect give him away to make us feel they're cooperating." And once in a while Noriega would assist in the seizure of large amounts of narcotics -- cynics suggest as a way to punish traffickers who did not pay him off. But if charges filed against him are proved, those efforts were far outweighed by the assistance he gave the drug lords of Colombia's Medellin cartel...
Many of the Chinese nationals fear that if they return home their government will punish them for supporting last year's pro-democracy demonstrations...
MacPhee also suggested there was an element of hypocrisy to the plaintiffs' efforts to punish him for asking the court to move the case out of Boston...