Word: punishingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mandatory that any provisional sentence must be the maximum possible; he did not have discretion to make it lower. Moreover, it could be argued that Sirica's efforts to determine the true motives and origins of the crime were relevant to his decision on how severely finally to punish the defendants. Yet it is also
...past Kuwait, like other Arab states, has been reluctant to punish Palestinian guerrillas. This time Kuwait may find it impolitic to be so generous...
...wondering where next year's votes are going to come from. Though the party did not suffer a rout and there was no consistent pattern across the U.S., the more the professionals examined the returns, the more it appears that voters, especially Republican voters, had decided to punish the G.O.P. for Watergate. Says Ronald A. Sarasin, a Republican Congressman from Connecticut, where the Democrats captured an additional 22 town halls: "Too many outstanding officials were defeated for no discernible reasons to attribute it to normal local considerations. We must not sit back and think that the Washington situation...
Efforts to treat prisoners are really only exercises in control because of the attempt to both rehabilitate and punish inmates at the same time, Brin said. This combination makes rehabilitation degrading, he said...
...pleased, or even satisfied, with the acts or omissions of his delegates or of the state itself. It does demand, however, that the acts and omissions of the state derive in some fashion from the wishes of elected officials. Accountability has meaning only if those whom we reward or punish for their behavior have indeed had some control or potential for control over the events by which we evaluate them. How futile and self-deceiving it is to "throw the rascals out," if the "rascals" are as blameless and without authority...