Meanings of penalise people in English

IBEC want the Minster to introduce measures to penalise people who make fraudulent insurance claims.

I don't want to penalise people who work hard.

We are not trying to penalise people for the sake of a millimetre, he said.

Secondly, our lives are governed by imperfect structures that penalise people of color in particular.

The CFDT opposes the government's plan to financially penalise people who stop working before 64, two years later than the legal retirement age.

Moreover, authorities have generally been given no powers to penalise people who disregard calls to stay at home or businesses that decline to shut down.

Prime Minister David Cameron has defended the so-called "bedroom tax" which will penalise people on housing benefit who have one or more spare rooms.

He said "there is an alternative to penalising people while still generating the revenue required".

The council-run car park at Sudbury in Suffolk penalises people who do not display a ticket on their windscreen.

He said the measures were "not about penalising people" but about helping the environment by targeting vehicles that give out high levels of carbon dioxide.