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How to use the word punished in a Sentence?

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Joe Biden’s failure to enforce the law at the border has made every state a border state, instead of securing the border, President Biden is shifting the burden of the influx of illegal migrants onto New York communities. Upstate New York should not be punished for Biden’s border crisis.

Elise Stefanik

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world?' You are.

Ayn Rand

added by Normando
1 year ago

We want those responsible to be punished.... They need to pay for what they did to our children, we are suffering. We are dead inside.

Maximino Hernandez Cruz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They( the players) make bad decision, and this is football. It's a game of mistakes and we get punished, it's naïve how we played today. You have to play more direct. We attracted them ; space was high on the pitch... We will learn, we have to learn. But it's no good, it's quite clear at this level.

Ten Hag

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With maybe a thousand disturbed people in a state of millions, Cuomo reduced the number of beds so a judge could put an emotionally disturbed person into custodial care. Politicians refuse to expand that. New Yorkers are punished by those they voted into office and are returning us to insanity.

Michael Graae/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Steve is a stand-up guy. He is in tears, he's beside himself, but the last thing he wants is for Amanda to be criminally punished. She is going through enough already, he knows that she is their mother, no matter what happened, and that there was nothing done on purpose. All he wants to do right now is make sure his daughter is OK and that everyone can begin to heal.

Gary Block

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

What I found in my research is that women were indeed punished, even if, you know, almost none of them are prosecuted and incarcerated for having an abortion.

Leslie Reagan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today another decision was made. Regarding antiheroes. Now I do not have time to deal with all the traitors. But gradually they will all be punished.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Think as if you were punished for every deliberate wrong thought. You are.

Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

Keystone is emblematic of just the punishment this administration has doled out to the energy industry at large, this example of how this administration has punished the fossil fuel industry, punished the infrastructure, and it has also then scared off a lot of investment … This government is making it impossible to bring things to fruition.

Daniel Turner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You know what you’re doing is wrong, we know it. Whether you get yours in this life or God punishes you, you’re going to get justly punished and the lack of justice we’re going to get, you’re going to have to answer for someday.

Douglas Kantor

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Look at the situation. We are in a dangerous situation. He destroyed Afghanistan. He’s put us in a situation with Russia. He has no plan for Taiwan, and you’re sending our athletes over to Beijing for the Olympics, and you’ve said nothing about how you’re going to protect them when they’re over there. They’ve literally been threatened and told that if they say anything against the government they will be punished. Where’s the protection for Americans? Literally, he has failed on every level.

Nikki Haley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We've been helping parents advocate, and now we've filed this lawsuit on behalf of students like Ellah because no young person should be segregated or punished or made to feel how Ella is just for trying to access their in-person education in the United States of America.

Sharon McKeeman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This will encourage would-be robbers to bring weapons to their crimes as they won’t be punished any worse than if they didn’t bring weapons.

Mark Bederow

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It appears that Chinas Weibo is punished this time for the Peng Shuai scandal, which is the biggest censorship campaign of the year.

Eric Liu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Too many laws threaten journalists with jail, too many documents are top secret and too many whistleblowers are punished when they should be protected.

Michael Miller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Mr.Arberyshould be here today, celebrating the holidays with his mother, Wanda Cooper Jones,and his father, MarcusArbery. Nothing can bring Mr.Arberyback to his family and to his community, but the verdict ensures that those who committed this horrible crime will be punished.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Henry still did the right thing by testing within the window, he should not be punished because his case attracts so much attention.

David Chesnoff

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are studies that show that dopamine is released when we see a transgressor being punished, i think it’s possible that we just are chasing that hit that we get when we see someone that we’ve perceived to be a wrongdoer, get their comeuppance.

Tiffany Watt Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

God: God created this violent world, he allows the evil and violence to exist in this world, he forgives evil people when they should be punished and he punishes good people when they should be forgiven. God is clearly not good.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
2 years ago

The prosecution reinforced that I deserved to be punished.

Monica Szlekovics

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That’s football for you at the highest level, lack of concentration, make a mistake and you get punished.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think that what hasn't been super public is that there is no justifying or excusing what happened because what happened was wrong. And I think every single person in my family can be like, 'That was messed up. That was a big mistake,’ but I think what's so important to me is to learn from the mistake, not to now be shamed and punished and never given a second chance because I'm 21. I feel like I deserve a second chance to redeem myself, to show I've grown.

Olivia Jade

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Still today I'm punished for this crime, I can't go back home, we are more American citizen than we are Cuban. We have the blood, we have the body, we have lived in this country way longer. And we ask for a second chance, for an opportunity, for somebody to help us, to be able to own things, to travel, to vote. To be treated like an American.

Marcos Calderon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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