What is "penalizes"

Usage examples of "penalizes".

Leaving men free to think, to act, to produce, to attempt the untried and the new, its principles operate in a way that rewards effort and achievement, and penalizes passivity.

But capitalism is the only system that functions in a way which rewards rationality and penalizes all forms of irrationality, including racism.

They can think and reason and it takes little for them to realize how simple it would be to end the system which penalizes them.

So natural selection penalizes any predilection, on the part of individuals on either side, towards hybridizing with the other species or even race.

That discourages initiative and penalizes the hardest or most efficient workers.

I'm sorry about that, but what kind of person penalizes someone for what their wife did?