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 Translation for 'punishing' from English to French
ADJ   punishing | more punishing | most punishing
NOUN   punishing | -
VERB   to punish | punished | punished
punishing | punishes
éprouvant {adj} {pres-p}punishing [tough, rigorous]
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punitif {adj}punishing
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Translation for 'punishing' from English to French

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punishing [tough, rigorous]
éprouvant {adj} {pres-p}
punishing
punitif {adj}
Usage Examples English
  • Mitchell was also the officer in charge of conscientious objector Archibald Baxter and responsible for punishing him with Field Punishment No.1.
  • Joseph McAleer has described Robins as "the recognised mistress of the punishing kiss device.
  • The Church also dispensed Canonical law excessively, punishing harshly those who offended them while protecting murderers of non-clerics and other criminals.
  • Royal Doulton sold a porcelain figurine of Benjamin's father punishing Peter from 1975 to 1988.
  • D'Angelo is very hesitant about discipline (such as the brutal beating of Johnny Weeks, or punishing dealers Cass and Sterling for stealing small amounts).

  • Dea earned the nickname "Hard Rock" for his punishing style of play. He is an uncle to NHL defenceman James Wisniewski.
  • His work reflected moderate positions in Islamic scholarship, including a monograph he wrote against punishing apostasy.
  • The idea of Pareto optimal payoff in a zero-sum game gives rise to a generalized relative selfish rationality standard, the punishing-the-opponent standard, where both players always seek to minimize the opponent's payoff at a favourable cost to themselves rather than prefer more over less.
  • Madras High Court criticized the trial court for not punishing the accused under SC/ST Act.
  • In 1679 Valbelle was charged with punishing the corsairs of Tripoli.

  • The consequence of a behavior can be reinforcing or punishing.
  • Skinner gives the examples of adults punishing certain verbal behavior of children, and a king punishing the verbal behavior of his subjects.
  • Criminalization would also be unjust in punishing only the woman, and letting the man go free.
  • A Singaporean brothel madame teaches her prostitute students how to get pleasure by punishing scoundrel men sexually in the 1950s decade.
  • Investigating crimes, arresting and interrogating arrested suspects, torturing criminal suspects in order to obtain a confession, punishing convicted criminals including executions.

  • Key to this decision was the fact that Jean did not record the event herself, thus punishing her would not serve the same deterrence goals as would punishing the recorder.
  • Lancashire Probation Trust is a criminal justice agency responsible for punishing and rehabilitating offenders in Lancashire, England.
  • The practice has mostly disappeared with more centralized societies where law enforcement and criminal law take responsibility for punishing lawbreakers.
  • "The Independent" [...] columnist Harriet Hall opined that the case reflected a long tradition of ignoring or punishing female rape victims.
  • According to Bensouda's report, the Israeli judicial system already makes provision for punishing those accused of war crimes—meaning that the ICC may not have jurisdiction over alleged Israeli violations; Bensouda wrote that she will have to keep reviewing the “scope and genuineness of relevant domestic proceedings” that remain ongoing.

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