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punishing

punishing
مُعَاقَبة

punishing N LAW

punishing

punish VB

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punish severely VB

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Services that the racketeers may offer may include the recovery of stolen property or punishing vandals.
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Bid rigging fraud by auction houses can be resisted by bidders who no longer bid, punishing crooked auction houses.
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By continually strengthening and reinforcing a behavior, or weakening and punishing a behavior an association as well as a consequence is made.
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Their dresses were hardly enough to keep the conscripts warm during the army's punishing, many-week-long marches.
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When an organism perceives an antecedent stimulus, it behaves in a way that maximizes reinforcing consequences and minimizes punishing consequences.
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This was enforced through state policies of rewarding publications that published acceptable content and punishing those that did not.
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The police commander was in charge of suppressing revolts and punishing villages which dropped below the quota.
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On a similar theme objections are made against the perceived injustice of punishing a person for all eternity for a temporal crime.
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Punishing is exercised, even at a cost, and in most experiments it leads to greater group cooperation.
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She starts out punishing the world and herself for all the things about man which she despises, through self-defeating behavior.
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