Penalize in a sentence

Advocates argue that a change to the system is needed to protect the public from “serious harm,” while critics worry that the measure would penalize the poor.

Bryan ISD school board members follow through on their declaration last week, to pass a resolution during Monday’s meeting calling on state lawmakers to not penalize districts for newly implemented tests and accountability standards.

Hackworth said while his organization understood the complaints, they believe it is unfair to penalize their members with a different set of standards.

He said that he would also asked the Office of Building Official to penalize the owners of these structures.

Penalize departments by reducing their budget by the amount of undocumented/misappropriated funds.

Penalize the attractive woman to benefit the ugly woman makes no sense.

That said, legislation to penalize government censorship has already been introduced, and you can help push it forward by asking your representatives to support it.

The school would need to know who is on strike if it asks a court to penalize them for walking off the job.

Todd-Breland emphasized these labels will not be used in any way to judge schools or penalize them.

But it's unclear whether the new law has any teeth to enforce the requirement and penalize those who refuse to comply.

Chinese authorities did not penalize the athletes after determining the drug had entered the swimmers’ systems through contamination.

The ordinance wasn’t crafted to criminalize or penalize people, but was intended to respond to community concerns, Councilor Jeff Willette said.

The plan to penalize motorists was initially scheduled to be implemented on August 31, 2024, but was now moved to October 1 this year.

The university has failed to “lift a finger to stop and deter this outrageous antisemitic conduct and penalize the students and faculty who perpetrate it,” according to the students suing Harvard.

They said the government hopes that through enhanced cooperation with the overseas investigative authorities, it can grasp the situation of copyright infringement abroad and possibly penalize perpetrators who have fled Japan after abusing copyrights.

A cornerstone of his plan would involve changing the tax code to penalize companies for moving jobs abroad and reward those that operate domestically.

As for factoring in the work from the first six weeks of the semester, Elizalde said that it could also unfairly penalize students because one bad six weeks in a semester isn’t always reflective of how the student would perform the rest of the semester.

But as is often the case with heavy-handed government efforts to suppress or penalize critics, it's not working.

But if the DNC were to penalize these three states, they’d lose even more delegates as none would still qualify for their bonus delegates.

But lawmakers also are considering a Republican measure to eliminate Edwards’ authority to penalize businesses that reopen early.