form of punishment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofformandpunishment
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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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punishment
noun
uk/ˈpʌn.ɪʃ.mənt/us/ˈpʌn.ɪʃ.mənt/
the act of ...
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(Definition offormandpunishmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The first is to suppose that any prohibition is aformofpunishment.
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After the investigations had been concluded, the civilian community and the guerrillas would be gathered and asked to decide on theformofpunishment.
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Indeed, fines began to replace internment as the favouredformofpunishment.
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Alarmingly, these revealed that criminal careers did not necessarily stop with transportation, raising questions about the purpose of thisformofpunishment.
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A tremendous amount of time and energy went into determining the exactformofpunishmentappropriate to each particular crime.
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Any deviation from or criticism of this system was quickly labelled anti-state or anti-development and therefore subject to someformofpunishment.
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Banishment, sometimes imposed in addition to labour service, was a secondaryformofpunishment, as was confinement of women to casas de recogidas.
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It is quite another thing to order a teacher to use aformofpunishmentin which he or she does not believe.
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It is not clear that thatformofpunishmentis in society's interests at all.
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In the case of poor people, a fine is a worseformofpunishmentthan a small sentence would be.
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Should we not consider whether there are other factors which might lead to a conclusion as to the bestformofpunishment?
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Such an act would probably be illegal already, and we should not use eviction as an additionalformofpunishment.
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Is there not some way to reduce that expensive and cruelformofpunishment?
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We should take the earliest opportunity to end the argument about this barbaricformofpunishment.
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I do not support this particularformofpunishmentas a vengeance.
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It is, in fact, aformofpunishmentto go from a grammar school to a secondary modern school.
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It is very curious that this relic of barbarism, that a belief in this retrogradeformofpunishment, crops up in the most unexpected places.
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Nine and a half years in solitary confinement is a barbarousformofpunishment.
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