And the worst penalty a firm can mete out to a wrongdoer is the sack.
Governments have been reluctant to criticise each other in public, let alone to mete out fines.
So, too, the referee whose job it is to mete out fines and suspensions, if required.
There is talk of special courts to mete out speedy justice and give punishments the sanction of law.
Commanding officers have become increasingly reluctant to hold courts martial, or to mete out stiff penalties when they do.
Small business CEOs have to mete out precious capital for innovation in a way that maximizes opportunity and minimizes disruption.
Mrs Clinton, however, emerges as a political colossus compared with the punishment the authors mete out to Mrs Palin and Mr Edwards.
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Then the best punishment I can mete out is for them to go and spend several weeks cleaning out public toilets and sewers.
Nevertheless, the Philippines' attempts to mete out justice to Mrs Marcos have long been hampered by a remarkable tendency to forgive and forget.
New York will take care of its state-wide infrastructure first and mete out the pain to smaller communities that depend on state revenues for subsistence.
Due to the severe violence they mete out to others, they lose the ability to rationalize between wrong and right, causing long-lasting damage to their psyche.
Eastwood long ago gave up celebrating men of violence: the mysterious, annihilating Westerners and the vigilantes who think that they alone know how to mete out justice.
Here is a breakdown of how Americans mete out their discretionary income (as opposed to outlays for necessities like housing and groceries): How Americans Spend Their Money.
The U.S. military is conducting its own investigation and will mete out "punishment, if appropriate ... in accordance with established policies and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, " the Southern Command said in its statement.
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