Word: punished
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...even admit it's a war, you can't be trusted to fight it. Critics who saw his faith in contagious democracy as naive may have missed the point that the American people have always been attracted to the idea. At the very least, voters may not punish a President for placing such hope in the principles they value most...
...posted a .255 hitting percentage in October’s contest. The Crimson will look to stop the Princeton’s outside hitting attack, which accounted for 51 of the Tigers’ 77 kills against the Crimson. Princeton took advantage of a block-focused Harvard defense to punish the Crimson on the line in the teams’ last meeting...
...some 20 years, until one day when a patient of hers nearly dies after submitting to her "procedure" and she finds herself in the law's clutches. It is as gentle as it can be, considering her saintly demeanor. But it is also implacable in its need to punish her--indeed, to crush her spirit...
...wake of the Jewish holocaust, the United Nations adopted the Genocide Convention, its first human rights treaty, which declared genocide a crime under international law that all signatories were obligated “to prevent and to punish.” Since the treaty requires intervention, many world leaders have been loathe to even use the word “genocide,” but despite semantics, reality is clear. Arab farmers are killing black men and gang-raping and mutilating black women so that they will have lighter-skinned babies and be too ashamed to return to their villages...
...Webster's and the Oxford English Dictionary granted his coinage lexicographic admission. In 1948 he went door to door at the new United Nations and persuaded representatives to endorse the Genocide Convention, the U.N.'s first human rights treaty, which committed signatories to "undertake to prevent and to punish" the monstrous horror...