What is "penalizing"

Usage examples of "penalizing".

The first party specifies the exact act he is penalizing and stipulates such punishment as he chooses.

They would have to wait until a court had decreed whether a given man was guilty or innocent— and even after he was pronounced guilty, they would have no right to change their behavior toward him and would have to leave the task of penalizing him exclusively to the government.

It's hard to imagine the United States penalizing Jordan, the GCC states, or Turkey given our close ties with them, and it is hard to imagine what else we could do to Iran given that we have had comprehensive sanctions (and even secondary sanctions) against it since 1995.

He was let go as there is as yet no law penalizing a teenager for being better hung than his teachers.

Less, if the new tax laws penalizing old age are pushed through in Halifax.

In a world that proclaims the non-existence of the mind, the moral righteousness of rule by brute force, the penalizing of the competent in favor of the incompetent, the sacrifice of the best to the worst —in such a world, the best have to turn against society and have to become its deadliest enemies.