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The most severe punishment, loss of vacation days, was meted out to nine officers.

He was obsessive about lifting weights, according to former Maine Coach Jack Cosgrove, and as his body grew into its eventual 311-pound frame, so did his confidence to mete out punishment.

Their execution, “was the swiftest punishment ever meted out under the Lindbergh Law,” one news article said, referring to the federal kidnapping statute passed by Congress after the historic Lindbergh kidnapping.

A trailer for the film posted a few months later shows Profitt starring as Detective John Davis, who resigns from his department to mete out justice on his own terms.

In my family, I felt anyway, like love was somewhat proportionately meted out according to your accomplishments.

The unfortunate reality is that race, gender, and economic status do matter when justice is meted out.

Will they escape the harsh punishment meted out to the Pharrell Williams ‘Happy’ dancers?

It is not a scarce commodity to be meted out begrudgingly or in short portions.

Draconian punishments were meted out to supposed sinners and traitors.

But in this case the system was exact and precise in the punishment meted out—he deserves every one of those 1,000 years.

He had meted out stern justice to his own son, when he had banished big Reginald to South America; but he had his virtues.

He had apparently forgotten the terrible role he had accepted and the doom he had meted out to her enemies.

A much milder punishment was meted out to the Comtesse de Soissons.

More tragic even was the punishment meted out to the Jewish informers who betrayed their people to the enemy.

Another bloody tyrant was dead, by the violence which he had meted out to so many others, and they were glad.