7 sentences with “punishment”

-Well, that's a relief! -said Frank, and laughed, happy to be spared punishment. I thought it was something more serious.

For Jorge Luis Borges, hell is "the penal establishment of eternity", and in that limitless time, in that limitless punishment, torture would reside.

The idea that the disease was a divine punishment was consolidated with the advent of Christianity. Christus Medicus Salvator was the name given to the son of God.

As a result of Napoleon's decadence, Ferdinand VII had been liberated and, after resuming command, he threatened the Americans who did not obey him with severe punishment.

Disgusted by so much pride, God imposed on them as a punishment the confusion of tongues so that they could not understand each other, and then scattered them to the four corners of the world.

It was not a divine punishment, but an epidemic that spread throughout the territory because the elementary rules of prophylaxis had not been observed. Unfortunately, such mistakes are still being made today.

Foucault's most evocative analyses concerned how the definition of crime and the practices of punishment had changed in the modern world to justify a huge apparatus of surveillance, a set to monitor all behaviour. In this model, 'criminality' was an invention of the social and political system itself that justified the system's policing apparatus.