South Carolina's Republican Party chairman has demanded that Florida abandon its plans -- or be punished by having the 2012 Republican National Convention move from its currently planned site, Tampa Bay.

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Prison doctors or wardens may be punished.

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Young thieves are less likely to be punished or reported.

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No one will be punished or held accountable.

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Any country, any society that wants to move forward and earn a place of honor among the nations must make it a priority to teach men from the earliest age that violence against women in any form is unacceptable, and those who hurt or intimidate women should be punished.

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The losers would be exporters from the punished country, be they good or bad employers, along with their workers.

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Major League Baseball and it entities has theoretically distanced themselves from the voting process and has unfairly left the Baseball Writers Association of America to determine whether or not these dishonest individuals should be punished for their egregious acts by denying them entrance into the Hall of Fame.

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The law must be enforced, and those who broke it, or connived in covering up infringement, should be conspicuously punished.

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These clients would gain by offering work to smaller firms in order to boost competition, but any company that does so is likely to be punished by lower share or bond prices.

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In a 1986 case it said that prisoners so insane that they could not understand the punishment they were about to suffer or why they were being punished could not be executed.

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Not only should the virus author be punished, but so should any irresponsible ISP or other company that might be at fault, he says.

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Professional codes instruct lawyers to be civil, but rudeness isn't tracked or punished as much as more concrete trespasses, such as filching clients' money.

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No doubt some utility companies deserved to be punished for moves they made either to cope with the deregulation of the 1990s or to take advantage of this new freewheeling environment.

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If coal users get punished with taxes or limits on greenhouse gas emissions, vendors of nuclear-fired electricity will be at a financial advantage.

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