But on the other hand some predicted voters could punish him for alleged political opportunism.
"The decision may be not to punish him, but to help and provide him with some assistance, " Walker added.
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The American Congress seems bent on weakening Mr Abbas by withholding funds, to punish him for his UN bid.
If a probationer still gets into trouble, the county can now punish him in ways short of returning him to prison.
Malloy's administration says it backs the state police commander who discussed the Newtown school shootings at a law enforcement seminar and won't punish him.
Mr Wilson claimed that the release of his wife's name was an effort to discredit and punish him for his criticism of the Bush administration.
His own country, one of Africa's cleanest, may punish him further.
Incarcerating Raj for life is a mistake and there are other ways to send a message to Wall Street, punish him for his mistakes and benefit society.
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In the 1990s, his reporting angered the army generals who once controlled so much of Turkey, and he says they sought to punish him for his disobedience.
These internal committees, made up of several high-level executives, mostly from risk-management divisions, have pledged not to reveal a whistle-blower's identity or to punish him for speaking up.
In 1999 Millennium's former compliance officer accused Sitomer, Rome and another colleague of conspiring to force him out and to punish him by salting his termination statement with false information.
Porco Rosso, a hard-bitten veteran, insists that all the good fliers died in the Great War and suspects that God transformed him into a pig-man to punish him for surviving it.
"He committed a mass killing crime, and we would like the court in the United States to implement justice and punish him according to the crime, " said Ahmad Zia Syamak, spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Plame's husband, retired career diplomat Joseph Wilson, accused White House officials of leaking his wife name to punish him and intimidate others after he wrote a critical op-ed article about the administration's handling of prewar intelligence on Iraq.
Mr Mullin reserves his real passion and energy for fighting the government car-pool service, which is determined to punish him for refusing a chauffeur-driven vehicle, and the High Hedges Bill, a noble bid to control the spread of fast-growing leylandii.
Indeed, so vicious that it is often impossible to simply punish the cheater him or herself.
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"We are not trying to punish Herschelle but rather to help him, " said Moosajee.
Immigrant rights activists have asked federal officials to drop their case against him, arguing that deporting him would unjustly separate his family and unfairly punish someone with no criminal history.
The political question is whether voters will punish Mr Zapatero for their gnawing sense of uncertainty, or prefer him as the man to lead them through hard times.
If they put three men on him, then they leave Scholes to open their defence and Roo will punish them at will.
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