"stiff" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Another common pattern is seen when parents discipline an infant with stiff corporal punishment.
- And government leaders across the world, including President Bush, have demanded stiff punishment for anyone found guilty.
- Only self-preservation and threats of stiff punishment seemed to change his behavior.
- Now, fear is swinging the pendulum back to the days when youth was no protection from stiff punishment.
- Pretending to a rank higher than your real one carries some very stiff punishments.
- Such reports and cases like the one here have led to a nationwide push for stiffer punishment of juvenile offenders.
- The proposed 15-yard penalty is a stiff immediate punishment.
- It was the stiffest punishment imposed on any major military contractor in decades.
- It was the stiffest punishment in league history, and the maximum allowed.
- To sentence somebody at the age of 17 to death, that is a stiff punishment.
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