How do you punish clear disobedience without breaking the compassionate spirit that led to it?

Salifou testified that to satisfy leaders who punished disobedience with death, he had looted during raids, grabbed new child conscripts and hit and kicked civilians without pity if they resisted.

The United States, as now composed, have no powers to exact obedience, or punish disobedience to their resolutions . . . .

Torturers kept making up new arbitrary rules, for which they would punish disobedience.

Not when Zan was there to punish disobedience.

In "Apes, in Particular," he writes that the indignation of animal rights advocates about cages "becomes dubious compared to the plight of children shut up in apartments with psychopathic parents, incestuous or sadistic fathers, alcoholic mothers, or bigoted families who punish disobedience with blows and treat leukemia with prayer."

The only difference here is that we've given these two the power to punish disobedience.

"Just keep the Foreign Legion in mind and remember how a capitaine punishes disobedience."

Strict in her management of the proceedings, Sheindlin coerces precise compliance of rules and has been known to punish disobedience and misbehavior.

"How do they punish disobedience?"