infliction of punishment , także: infliction of penalty

With him, the infliction of punishment was an end in itself, rather than what might be gained through it.

After this we see street fighting, atrocities, the infliction of punishment on harmless people by men wearing Gruad's eye-and-triangle badge.

The basic moral question about punishment is the age-old one: 'What justifies the infliction of punishment on people?'

Plutarch reports that "many things horrible and dreadful to see" occurred during the infliction of punishment, which was witnessed by the rest of Crassus' army.

An old-established rule of rabbinic jurisprudence forbids the infliction of punishment where there is no Biblical authority for such punishment (Sanh.

The favoured method of punishment was whipping, largely because it left the slave able to continue labour immediately after the infliction of punishment, although other more barbarous practices were employed.

Nevertheless, the training is sometimes unavoidably accompanied by the infliction of punishment in some form or other, but as is very well-known, this should never be done as a result of a fit of anger.

Q. On page 22 of that brief, a heading underlined says, "The death sentence for rape is impermissible under the Eighth Amendment because it does not meet 'contemporary standards' regarding the infliction of punishment and is inadvisable since it diminishes legal protection afforded rape victims."