Any attempt to communicate was met with swift punishment.

The regent administers swift punishment as the Jewish doctor is made to drink the poison.

No one has been charged in the case but officials in the US and abroad have called for swift punishment of the four marines.

The people who run the arena issued stern warnings for the next two days that such things are forbidden and would result in swift punishment.

After denouncing the "separatists," the authorities promised swift punishment for anyone involved in the bombings.

Failure to cooperate brought swift punishments, like 50 push-ups, or dining hall assignments.

He strode toward her, hard and fast, bent on meting out swift punishment.

He had broken custom and would have brought on him swift punishment had he been sighted.

Any youthful dissatisfactions are usually verbally expressed, but profanity is never allowed because the guilty child can expect swift punishment.

In the subculture of the station house, the answer to crime is swift punishment, not social work.