threat of punishment
Example Sentences
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Fifty-seven respondents said staff didn’t comply with mask mandates, even when prisoners were made to mask constantly under threat of punishment.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2023
Let’s call for the divulgence of those accounts immediately under serious threat of punishment for anyone aiding their subterfuge.
From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022
The district offers a bold example of how local authorities across drought-stricken California are trying to get people to use less water, voluntarily if possible but with the threat of punishment if they don’t comply.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2022
Yet generations of fellow Catholic leaders faced the same dilemma of suspicion from one side and threat of punishment from the other.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2020
He was furious, and no threat of punishment could move him.
From The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad by Carter, F. A. (Freeland A.)
