Nor are they desiccated calculating machines, meting out dispassionate justice uninfluenced by political ideas.

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Carlesimo is already meting out his team's energy, one burst at a time.

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Moviemakers are taking a long hard look at the violence visited on us, and, increasingly, the violence we're meting out in return.

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Officials with ABC accused Time Warner of trying to punish the network, but instead meting out the punishment to its cable customers.

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Slave narratives describe how others used the data to calculate punishment, meting out whippings according to how many pounds each picker fell short.

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Previous budget chairmen used to decree broad spending targets, then leave the thankless task of meting out the consequent cuts to the appropriations committee.

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There are potential benefits to this approach, such as meting out match bans for clear dives that may have been missed during the original game play.

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To some extent, it was meting out rough justice.

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The idea that there is no god (or some secular version of him) meting out cosmic justice through the market's invisible hand is unsettling, even to market advocates, but it shouldn't be.

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