7 sentences with 'punishment'
Example sentences and phrases with the word punishment and other words derived from it.
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « -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. »
• « 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. »