But exacting punishment for those acts ought not lead to the bankruptcy of institutions on which so many communities still depend.

He is delivering a message, not exacting punishment.

Yet they often are accorded more respect than the Ten Commandments, and they are enforced with more exacting punishments than the plagues God visited upon the Egyptians.

But others expressed the hope that the extraditions would mark an important turn on the road to exacting punishment for the attack.

Rape was, in fact, a way of exacting punishment on someone in (really backward) Islamic societies.

Little as Paul understood it, he heard in school the next day that Lizzy was exacting punishment for Belter "puttin' it aboot that he'd shagged her".

They also sought to make an alliance with the Merchant Seamen's League, supporting their aims of exacting punishment from the Germans for sinking ships in contravention of international law.

She won't thank Rome's men for exacting punishment in her name.

Jardine's tough exterior and candid letters to agents masked his compassionate nature, never exacting punishment when due.

They were repugnant, embarrassing and immoral, but this is not a constitutional forum for judging such behavior and exacting punishment.