Special care should be taken that taxation is so adjusted as not to penalise parenthood in the socially valuable middle class.
To penalise their offence by prohibiting re-marriage would only perpetuate their degradation, and does in fact so perpetuate and increase it in countries where the condemned party in a divorce is forbidden the altar.
Another set of reformers would penalise immorality by forbidding the guilty party in a divorce suit to re-marry, just as there are people who would prevent the physically unfit from marrying at all.
It would probably pay the banker actually to refuse small accounts, and to penalise the employment of cheques for small sums.
The object was to safeguard the right of the real {510} possessors and their true heirs, and not to penalise the others.
This is rigorously insisted upon, inasmuch as it is not fair to penalise the reputation of a dead man by inflicting upon him a record of bastard descendants whilst his own life might have been stainless.
After another twelve-month, he felt it his further duty to penalise all who had submitted to the illegal authority.
Such was the King's reverence for the Law that after it had been transgressed with his sanction for ten years he felt it his duty to penalise the transgressor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penalise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
