penalize

U.S. officials typically only move to penalize banks if they discover a significant failure to implement a sanctions-compliance program and police transactions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

But the Western States Petroleum Assn. trade group opposes that, saying it would penalize California refiners that have already invested in making the cleaner fuel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Only Charles Schwab won’t penalize traders for selling on the first day, but Schwab clients have to be pretty big players to get any shares.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

Fidelity Brokerage Services—one of the five brokers allocated retail shares of the IPO—will penalize investors who sell their SpaceX stock within 15 calendar days of the stock’s debut, according to the firm’s website External link.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

They recently ratcheted up a revenue-based business-and-occupation tax that penalizes growth and profitability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Lockwood hears from parents who wonder if saving for college penalizes them when it comes to financial aid.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026

McKinnon penalizes his fellow drill sergeant by dismissing him from overseeing that unit.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2025

Still, May continued to disregard the rule that penalizes those directors who take budgets lightly. 1976’s “Mikey and Nicky,” a bleak gangster buddy film, was plagued by cost overruns and a lumpy plot.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024

This same act penalizes refusal to cooperate properly with the census taker by answering his questions and in other ways.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Edward Samuel Corwin

The Rams were penalized 13 times for 91 yards, including several critical calls against them in the final minutes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

People who sell to lower- and moderate-income consumers are getting penalized by their customers in some cases for raising prices, but they’re still willing to try, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Even in cases where regulators found that companies endangered workers or committed multiple violations, few were penalized for all their citations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The judge reserved the question of what she called “guardrails for witnesses”—that is, whether Mr. Carroll’s alleged victims will be admonished or perhaps even penalized if they testify that he, rather than “she,” raped them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

My family had not asked for or even wanted to be involved in the struggle, but my involvement penalized them.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Notably, the measures announced stopped short of directly penalizing China, the main buyer of Iranian oil, a move that would have risked stoking tensions between the world’s two biggest economies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Meta still has the most call optionality, where the market is penalizing them for the spend and not giving them credit for potential revenue from the spend,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Policies shouldn’t be focused on convincing or penalizing the intentionally child-free.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

In California, Attorney General Rob Bonta unveiled the first settlement for violating the new law, penalizing Aspen Dental Management, which is backed by asset managers Leonard Green & Partners and Ares Management.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

We, as a community, have erected a system of laws which places us, as a community, in the attitude of penalizing practises which we, as individuals, do not severely condemn.

From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne