7 sentences with 'punishment'

Example sentences and phrases with the word punishment and other words derived from it.

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« -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. »

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