Word: punishment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disappointment that we didn't play better," Church said. "We should take no prisoners. We failed to really punish them. Our coach talked to us for a half hour after the games and he didn't have a positive world...
...other hand, four successive U.S. Presidents have sought to punish Vietnam through an economic embargo and diplomatic isolation. It is impossible to determine whether the Vietnamese economy was damaged more by those policies or by the misguided efforts of Ho Chi Minh's heirs to impose a Soviet-style system on the unified country. But the combination proved devastating. By 1985, 10 years after "liberation," Vietnam was on its knees and heavily dependent on aid from its chief ally, the Soviet Union...
...event, not complying with discovery requests is attorney misconduct. But bar associations and judges generally have been reluctant to punish lawyers unless their lack of compliance was intentional...
...admit, that might be an overreaction. More practically, the police and the University should abandon ridiculous policies that punish innocent students and make a concerted effort to offer assistance when it is needed...
...deportations are also disturbing because they constitute an act of collective punishment, in which an entire community is punished for the actions of a few. Surely 415 men, and especially those who were in prison during the incidents, were not involved in the execution or even the planning of Hamas' attacks on Israeli soldiers and border police. However, it is not Israeli policy to punish only the guilty...