Significados de mete out punishment en inglés

I am not a policeman, or a priest, to mete out punishment.

She could hurry back to the old storeroom and mete out punishment.

No, her place was to follow God's instructions and mete out punishment to the wicked blasphemers.

When God does mete out punishment here on earth, He does so with an overflowing measure.

Thus he was requited, for it is the way of God to mete out punishment measure for measure.

Where resentment has boiled over into acts of sedition, the Empire has been quick to mete out punishment.

I don't wish to play the part of a little Providence and mete out punishment in that way.

I mean, come on, we've all seen how heads of crime families mete out punishment to keep the soldiers in line.

Fielding leaned back in his chair to mete out punishment, joining the finger-tips with an air of ordering a detailed statement.

Detractors say Cossacks were used to mete out punishment to Jews or rebellious peasants, and should have no place in a modern society.

The skill with which they mete out punishment and approval, to individuals and to the class, has a tremendous bearing on the outcome.

More ominously, he called on the judiciary to mete out punishment to "unbelievers and apostates" who had rioted in the capital.

While the EU says it does not want to mete out punishment Britain, the trade deal offer will come as another blow to Britain.

A whole week Mordecai had spent in fasting and praying, supplicating God to mete out punishment to Ahasuerus for his desecration of the Temple utensils.

Even when she meted out punishment to her, Nancy knew that the punishment was just.

In the years since the scandal, the NCAA has meted out punishment for infraction after infraction.