The magistratical power punishes not all sorts of scandal, but some: the ecclesiastical power punishes (if rightly managed) all sorts of scandal.
The Amir pitilessly punishes all those who pass in the city any other coin.
The Constitution of South Carolina defines and punishes treason against the State, in the language of the old English statute, bringing it to precisely the same thing.
The State demands the strong wine of freedom, and unless her rulers give her a plentiful draught, punishes and insults them; equality and fraternity of governors and governed is the approved principle.
We know of no tribe in which there is a belief of any kind in a supreme being who rewards or punishes the individual according to his moral behaviour, using the word moral in the native sense.
And He punishes not only present--" At these words the King relapsed into his former mood; his eyes lost the bright sparkle of resolution.
If you break the peace guarded by sacred oaths, and attack us, we shall manfully defend ourselves, and appeal to God, who punishes perjury and wrong.
And civil authority, in concert with religion, punishes those who have the audacity to earn bread, instead of praying or being idle.
A God who delights in the tears of his unhappy creatures, who sets for them the ambush, and then punishes them for having fallen into it?
And, Harold Colville, while you exult in your wickedness, remember that there is a God above who punishes the guilty for their evil deeds.
God above who cares for the innocent and punishes the guilty?
A "scheme" that punishes an innocent man for the vices of another can hardly be called divine.
The nation that punishes ordinary offences with death is regarded as barbarous, and the nation that tortures before it kills is denounced as savage.
No court in any civilized country would be allowed to act upon such a principle; and the judge who should indorse it, or favor a law, or principle, which punishes the innocent for the guilty, would be ruled off the bench at once.
S: And such is the punishment of your Lord when He punishes the towns while they are unjust; surely His punishment is painful, severe.
S: He punishes whom He pleases and has mercy on whom He pleases, and to Him you shall be turned back.
S: And Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; He forgives whom He pleases and punishes whom He pleases, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
Y: "He punishes whom He pleases, and He grants Mercy to whom He pleases, and towards Him are ye turned.
They are the publication of natural religion,--that God is a rewarder of virtuous actions, andpunishes wicked deeds.
And Article 55 punishes ‘whoever, being charged with the levy of taxes, shall have required of the natives, whether in kind or labour, contributions which shall exceed in value those prescribed in the tables of taxes.
Article 9 of the same Decree punishes every infraction of this provision by a fine of 100 fr.
For God punishes sins of that kind not only in a future state, but in the present life.
He either punishes their offences, should he deem it necessary; or permits them for the chastisement of his people.
The God who is so just, sometimes punishes men who cannot divine the cause of his vengeance.
In a God who punishes the being he has tempted, or subjected to temptation, do you perceive any equity?
They make God a tyrant, who punishes the inevitable faults to which he has impelled them, or into which he has allowed them to be seduced.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "punishes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
