Can the government not see the suffering they inflict for such small savings?

What sentence might he not inflict for such contempt of court?

There was no punishment Miss Eliza could fairly inflict for that, beyond scolding a little.

That is my crime, Father Brown, and I don't know what penance you would inflict for it.

Before you receive this, I shall have suffered all that the law of man can inflict for my offences.

It was too much vengeance to take and too much punishment to inflict for a danger so short-lived and so strictly personal.

Again the Master explained to her what it had been inflicted for.

The punishments inflicted for forgery, coining base money, and perjury, were arbitrary.

Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid, but debases him.

Thirty-nine was the number of lashes ordinarily inflicted for the most trifling offence.

A pecuniary punishment is not wont to be inflicted for a criminal fault.

Takezoi's disastrous venture inflicted for a time a heavy blow on Japanese prestige.

The punishments inflicted for nonconformity were accompanied by the most refined and barbarous cruelties.

Objection 1: It would seem that not every punishment is inflicted for a sin.

Although neutral in religion, the Romans thus very often sanctioned penalties inflicted for religious faults.

Therefore it seems that the punishment of death should not be inflicted for a sin.