• All three names probably belonged to the same person, who was using multiple identities to bid up the price of his goods--a case of shilling that auctioneers punish by removing sellers from their sites.

    FORBES: Cybersleuths

  • Apple had asked Koh to punish Samsung by ruling that Apple's phone design patents were valid, and had been infringed.

    MSN: Apple executive: Steve Jobs was open to making a smaller iPad - Technology & science - Computers | NBC News

  • If not, they will punish them by going to a sustainability-minded competitor.

    FORBES: No, Consumers Will Not Pay More for Green

  • Rucu Pichincha, who was Mama Cotacachi's former lover, found out about the liaison and decided to punish her by taking away their child, Guagua Pichincha.

    BBC: Scaling the Ecuadorean Andes

  • Or the commission could punish Boeing by fining any European airline that bought Boeing jets or by impounding new aircraft as they fly into Europe from Seattle.

    ECONOMIST: Brussels v Boeing

  • There's also a motion under Section 4A (2) of the Parliamentary Standards Act, which (if I read it aright) concerns the Commons power to punish MPs by withholding salaries.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • 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.

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  • Mr. Cabrera, a Bronx Democrat, said members were more willing to buck the speaker because Ms. Quinn has only one more city budget to oversee, through which she could punish members by reducing their discretionary funds.

    WSJ: Speaker Quinn's Grip on New York City Council Begins to Slip

  • And they are quick to punish unprofitable strategies by heading for the exits, hurting the stock's price.

    CNN: THE NEW JAPAN INC.

  • Kerry would also punish risk-takers by increasing the capital gains levy and would reduce the supply of capital by rescinding President Bush's dividend tax reductions.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • If Apple is not able to generate good returns for the average American, we will punish these mutual funds by moving our retirement money to somewhere else.

    ENGADGET: Made in America: could your next phone be homegrown? Mobile

  • The answer to our economic problems is not to punish success and entrepreneurship by taxing each additional dollar of income of those with higher incomes at a higher rate.

    FORBES: Guest Post: Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

  • It is quite disturbing to see the approach of the Obama Administration towards Honduras, which has decided to punish the Honduran people by declaring that they won't recognize the election that's going to take place in late November.

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  • Where injustice goes unheeded by those who could punish or remedy it, or where fairness and justice are denied by those who could provide it, victims are too often tempted or provoked into disproportionate retribution and retaliation that will sometimes turn seemingly minor injustices into major catastrophes.

    FORBES: How to Avoid Road Rage at Work

  • The SEC's focus on advice provided by lawyers in mortgage-bond deals is part of the wider push by officials to punish alleged wrongdoing tied to the financial crisis.

    WSJ: Legal Eagles in Cross Hairs

  • With several racist incidents making headlines in the past calendar year, UEFA is also prepared to punish supporters' racist behavior by closing sections of football grounds -- or, if need be, all of the stadium -- in cases of persistent fan abuse.

    CNN: UEFA wants 10-match bans for racist abuse

  • Unlike regulations promulgated by EPA, which are designed to punish those within the industry, FDA regulations encourage innovation in the field by fast-tracking life-saving new drugs and offering independent research for all drug manufacturers.

    FORBES: Regulatory Lessons from Obama EPA Appointee's Resignation

  • Instead, the government should punish the misuse of a gun by criminals.

    FORBES: Why 3D-Printed Untraceable Guns Could Be Good For America

  • Firms are being squeezed, in one direction by the country's debilitating recession, and in the other by regulatory reforms that punish many of the old, wasteful ways.

    ECONOMIST: The land of disappointments

  • The visitors had a gilt-edged chance to punish the miss when a slip by Birmingham centre-back Johnson allowed Everton forward Yakubu a strike at goal from 10 yards.

    BBC: Birmingham 0-2 Everton

  • Brian Cote of Andersen Consulting insists that shareholders, fed up with low returns, will punish firms that try to expand by adding capacity in an already glutted market.

    ECONOMIST: Paper

  • As a private company Chrysler has the latitude to make long-term decisions that would have been difficult, if not impossible, to justify in a world where shareholders punish companies for missing earnings projections by a penny per share.

    FORBES: Chrysler's Last Stand

  • The American Congress seems bent on weakening Mr Abbas by withholding funds, to punish him for his UN bid.

    ECONOMIST: Hamas after the prisoner exchange

  • They are also more likely to use aggression for altruistic means by, say, attempting to punish people who steal or break other societal rules.

    FORBES: Men With Wide Faces: Frauds or Financial Wizards?

  • This assumes, however, that the left is more motivated by revenue maximization than it is by a class-warfare impulse to punish the rich.

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  • But it seems harsh to punish those who have done well for their elephants by supporting those who, for whatever reason, have let their populations shrink.

    ECONOMIST: An elephantine problem

  • The Russian plan is rather simple: Punish countries that refuse to come under its influence by building new gas pipelines that bypass them, while rewarding countries and political leaders that cooperate with Russia with lucrative energy deals.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A Bear energy market

  • His final confrontation, with the Albanians of Kosovo, provoked a NATO bombing assault in the spring of 1999 that destroyed government buildings, factories and much infrastructure in a land already ruined by years of international sanctions intended to punish Mr. Milosevic for instigating earlier wars.

    NYTIMES: Slobodan Milosevic

  • Steyne and Donald shared penalties before Piri Weepu's wayward pass was recovered by the Springboks and Fourie went over to punish the error.

    CNN: Rugby: South Africa edge All Blacks

  • Critics have warned that the ban would punish the poor, who might try to save money by buying a larger drink to share at the movies, for example.

    WSJ: Judge Halts New York City Soda Ban

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