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...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...
...woman's lawyers asserted that the motion to transfer the trial to another part of the state was brought in "bad faith" and is an attempt to punish the woman for bringing the suit...
Implicit in the Ec 10 presentation is that Rawlsian justice means measures that would unjustly punish the most advantaged members of society. By presenting the possibility of all members of society getting equal parts of a tiny pie, Ec 10 evokes images of inefficiency and communism...