castigar
punish ; slap ; victimise [victimize, -USA] ; put + Nombre + on the rack ; discipline ; chastise ; smite ; bludgeon ; come down (hard) on.
They admitted that they did not evaluate their technicians and aides, and confirmed that increases were automatic and the same 'across-the-board'; superior performance was not rewarded, nor inferior performance punished.
I wonder if she did quit if she could slap us with a lawsuit.
In the name of collegiality, students are victimized, considerable intellectual resources are being squandered, and the general public is deliberately misled.
The article 'Putting publishers on the rack' discusses the implications for publishers of supermarkets' greater interest in books.
It draws from the cases some practical pointers for librariansin hiring, firing, and disciplining employees = It draws from the cases some practical pointers for librariansin hiring, firing, and disciplining employees.
The profession should cease practising the amateurism for which it chastises employers who have untrained persons trying to function as librarians.
Instead, this may come off as a sort of mixed signal considering that God has chosen to smite California right after a proposition was passed banning same sex marriage.
Spain has become the latest European nation to stump up billions in public cash to bail out car firms bludgeoned by the economic crisis.
Of course they couldn't possibly come down on the lazy liggers of society - they will come down hard on the people that really need financial help.
castigar con la prisión
punish with + prison
In most cases authors pictured incest as an assault against the innocent, but they often saw the abuser, especially the father, as a victim of himself and he is rarely punished with prison.
castigar con todo el peso de la ley
punish + to the full extent of the law
Anyone who wilfully or wantonly and without cause writes upon, injures, defaces, tears or destroys any book, plate, picture, engraving, or statue belonging to the Library shall be punished to the full extent of the law of the State.
castigar con un simple tirón de orejas
let + Nombre + off with a slap on the wrist
get off with + a slap on the wrist
get away with + a slap on the wrist
I hope they throw the book at her instead of letting her off with a slap on the wrist.
The decision disgusted local police, who said Hooper could have been sent to jail for 18 months but got off with a slap on the wrist.
How can people be repeat offenders and get away with a slap on the wrist!.
castigar duramente [Verbo irregular: pasado smote, participio smitten Usado comúnmente con un sentido religioso o bíblico]
smite
throw + the book at
Instead, this may come off as a sort of mixed signal considering that God has chosen to smite California right after a proposition was passed banning same sex marriage.
I hope they throw the book at him, as anybody should be able to go anywhere they want without getting attacked.
castigar severamente
blast
crack down on
She ought to have fired him on the spot ... blasted him for his incivility.
Private citizens now suffer increased government monitoring of their telephone lines in an attempt to crack down on illegal Internet surfing.