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.