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
The presiding judge for King County Drug Court, Mary Roberts, said the threat of punishment is a motivator to at least try the program.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 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
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
We have now discovered that the so-called learned man had no authority, either for his threat of punishment or his offer of reward.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Hubbard, Elbert
