deserving of punishment

We were the ones most deserving of punishment.

The townsfolk, all present, make it clear they think Grimes is guilty and deserving of punishment.

Some police officers may view the population (or a particular subset thereof) as generally deserving of punishment.

Whoever claims it is round is an atheist deserving of punishment.

This is crime beyond metaphor, violent crime deserving of punishment."

I can't believe I did it, but it is deserving of punishment."

Folly was as deserving of punishment as crime.

Both were unpleasant men deserving of punishment.'

What he did, he acknowledges, was "unpardonable and shameful" and deserving of punishment.

God says to us, 'Yes, you are guilty, unworthy and deserving of punishment but I have provided for your forgiveness.'

"It's certainly deserving of punishment."

"The petty officers would not hesitate to administer the severest beatings to recruits they felt deserving of punishment.

Although they cannot, nowadays, directly give detentions, they can refer pupils who may be deserving of punishment to a House Master.

In other words, those who feel self-disgust cannot easily condemn others to punishment because they feel that they may also be deserving of punishment.

That would undo decades of effort to have chemical dependency recognised as a treatable disorder rather than as a moral lapse deserving of punishment.

Some orders from branch command partisans insist on protecting the innocent, instead of providing lists of categories to be hit as individuals deserving of punishment.

Boxer claimed Kelso was deserving of punishment on the grounds that as the Navy's top officer he bore ultimate responsibility for what happened at Tailhook.

This affair was thought serious; the mischief, the lie, the obstinacy, were considered equally deserving of punishment, which was not now to be administered by Miss Lambercier.

The ambiguity is intentional: Visits to prostitutes are not reasons for a court-martial, but long-term affairs and affairs between soldiers are considered dangerous and deserving of punishment.

'Lord Intef, you are accused of treason and murder, of brigandage and piracy, and of a hundred other crimes no less deserving of punishment.

Lessig acknowledges piracy is wrong and deserving of punishment, however he is concerned the concept, as it appears in the context of 'internet piracy', has been used inappropriately.

Why the innkeeper wished to hold on to a serving maid who was always deserving of punishment, who was as sickly as a winter-born lamb, Willadene could never understand.

In his summing up, Mr Justice Ferguson said the charge of manslaughter could be established only if the Crown proved gross negligence, criminal in character, and deserving of punishment.

It's saying that if you commit criminal acts in order to act out your hateful thoughts, that's even worse for society and more deserving of punishment than the equivalent action would be without a racial overtone.

Formal victim statements may only inflame a jury, and worse, imply that "defendants whose victims were assets to their community are more deserving of punishment than those whose victims are perceived to be less worthy."