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
It does seem to suggest that the threat of punishment is limiting pitcher advantage over hitters — which, one could assume, meant those substances were giving pitchers that advantage in the first place.
From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2021
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
Gross sins and vices may be recognized or else repressed by the threat of punishment.
From Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Graebner, Theodore
