Word: punishes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Despots, Old and New Re Michael Byers' viewpoint "Dictators in the Dock" [July 19], why can't we punish Saddam and let him live, provided he agrees to cooperate with the new Iraqi government? He is responsible for the crisis in Iraq, so let him fix the things he destroyed. Let the Iraqis vent their anger on the person who made them suffer, instead of on coalition troops. Saddam's dictatorship is gone forever, and killing him is not a solution. Why not let him become - under strict supervision - an adviser to the new Iraq? For years...
...fact that I am no longer the spokesman for Slim-Fast makes me sad, but not as sad as someone trying to punish me for exercising my right as an American to speak my mind." WHOOPI GOLDBERG, on the fallout from her off-color remarks about President Bush at a Democratic fund raiser...
Serbia's tabloids know who killed Zoran Djindjic, the Prime Minister assassinated on a Belgrade street just over a year ago. It was Big Tobacco, angry at his planned sale of the lucrative state-owned tobacco company. Or it was Britain's sas, punishing him for asserting too much independence from the West. Or it was the CIA because, well, because they're the CIA. One former government official even insisted to Time that Djindjic ordered a fake hit on himself, so that in the aftermath he could impose a state of emergency and cement his hold on power. According...
...said the Chicago Tribune, promised to throw in the school's chess team if offers topped $5. It garnered more than a dozen bids, the highest at $14,000, before the student declared the auction a prank. School officials, in a surprise move, got the joke and didn't punish...
That attitude translated into greater faith in his own natural ability, specifically his capacity to challenge and punish linebackers successfully...