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"mete out" Definitions
  1. (formal) to give somebody a punishment; to make somebody suffer bad treatment

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Western governments have the greatest capacity to mete out fair justice.
Some even allow for their daughters to mete out physical punishments.
Gang members regularly mete out punishment to transgressors, experts have said.
Advertisers, however, have been quick to mete out punishment for shoddy content.
But a decision to mete out reparations may rip our nation asunder.
Theoretically, Congress could even mete out jail time if it wanted to.
And if foreign meddling does occur Tuesday, the agency will mete out sanctions.
There are too many consumers in need, too much justice to mete out.
From the master she learned how to draw and hold the spotlight: Mete out revelations.
Mark Meadows was misheard to have said "weed out justice" instead of "mete out justice."
Another writer-artist, Steve Ditko, was interested in nerds gaining power to mete out righteous justice.
Will he weigh the injustices and mete out justice to reflect the needs of a situation?
As it turns out, Netflix, which streams the series, was the one to mete out the punishment.
It is not in the culture of the Arab to mete out severe treatment against each other.
After all, it's the president himself who gave people license to mete out justice on their own.
Yes. But it's also not in the sport's best interest to mete out more power to Goodell, either.
To just sit back and let the people decide and mete out justice is both irresponsible and dangerous.
It is up to the player to go to specific apartments around the city and mete out justice.
Or bartenders can mete out drinks like justice, awarding the well-behaved, while teaching the assholes a lesson.
She resents their imperfections and hypocrisies, and she stands ready to mete out her own form of judgment.
Minorities, on the other hand, appear frightened at the treatment such a government might mete out to them.
Her job is to deliver pep talks and mete out discipline, but Krystal is not really the boss.
Front Burner These shot glasses let you mete out precious liquors, and come in handy for baking projects.
If the government wants companies to change their behavior, maybe it should mete out some punishments that actually matter.
The policy allows baseball's commissioner, Rob Manfred, to mete out punishment whether or not there is a criminal conviction.
One by Dr. Bugbee aims to use more sensors and controls to more precisely mete out water and nutrients.
The governing bodies for each sport were left to scrutinize their own athletes and mete out punishment when warranted.
National laws do not always take effect in rural villages, where councils of men mete out their own punishments.
It's ultimately up to the police commissioner to decide what punishment to mete out or whether to dismiss the charges.
And, of course, the NFL will also likely mete out its own punishment for violating the league's Personal Conduct Policy.
The aliens are mysterious and appear to be friendly, unless provoked, in which case they mete out a harsh response.
We rightly count on the state to protect us from criminals and to appropriately mete out justice for broken laws.
But John Fielding knew that, before administrators of justice could mete out punishment or exercise wisdom, they needed something else: information.
There is a righteous fury to Atlus' role-playing game Persona 5, where teenagers mete out justice as they see fit.
The special courts will mete out alternative sentences like landmine removal for ex-guerrilla leaders who are convicted of war crimes.
In their Sunday deliberations, Olympic officials have the option of deferring to sports federations to mete out a patchwork of punishments.
Despite the court situation, the NBA is still investigating on their own and could mete out punishment if they deem necessary.
Many fear they will be attacked for cooperating with investigators, and those in gangs prefer to mete out their own justice.
Then the N.C.A.A., which has never had enough resources to police all of its members, would investigate and mete out punishment.
And the group's leader in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, said Sunday it is ready to mete out "just retribution" for Soleimani's death.
In a recent survey by Realmeter, a local pollster, over 40% said the government should mete out stiffer punishments to corrupt bosses.
Many human rights organizations have criticized this policy as creating an economic incentive to detain more immigrants and to mete out the
As a result, the courts have tended to mete out stiff sentences in that dark place where crime and food safety overlap.
Yet recently we have seen judges aggressively challenged — especially when they mete out sentences in criminal matters with which the populace disagrees.
No one was hurt in the crash, and race judges decided no one was to blame, and did not mete out any penalties.
Good movies mete out information carefully, trusting that if you don't quite get what's going on, you'll catch up as you go along.
But it is the schools themselves that must grapple with how to mete out justice to students who gained admissions through fraudulent means.
The doomed Barb Holland on the Netflix hit, finally got to mete out some revenge on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday.
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 fine for Spain and Portugal could also have set a precedent, obliging Brussels to mete out similar treatment to other offenders, like France.
Coppola proposes using a defendant's brain profile not to mete out punishment, but rather to design alternative sentences based on social and emotional training.
But the decision to win in the fifth quarter by those with the power is always made well before they actually mete out the consequences.
The film, like its source material, dictates that anyone with the magical notebook is granted the power to mete out justice as they see fit.
The FSA will mete out the punishments after uncovering flaws in customer protection and anti-money laundering measures during on-site checks at the exchanges.
Thanks to Snowden, we no longer believe that star-chamber rubber-stamp courts such as the FISA court are particularly likely to mete out justice.
"Serial" has turned to larger questions, and ones less straightforward to answer, of what constitutes crime in America and who gets to mete out the punishment.
The Australian government has passed far-reaching new laws that ban foreign interference in politics and mete out harsher punishments for the divulging of classified information.
The administration can largely decide how strictly to enforce the Hatch Act, because the agency charged with policing it has no power to mete out discipline.
The special courts will mete out alternative sentences like landmine removal for ex-guerrilla leaders who are convicted of war crimes committed during the five-decade war.
He's also challenging the constitutionality of the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act, the federal law that lays out the authority of federal judges to mete out discipline.
The police and military no longer really need to mete out violent discipline or threats of detention and arrest to workers contemplating rebellion on the factory floor.
But the civilian board has no power to mete out discipline in such cases; it refers them to the Police Department for further investigation and possible action.
If Trump was able to appoint loyal cronies in these agencies who were willing to mete out vengeance at Trump's behest, his threats could become very powerful.
Under the bill, USDA would mete out $3 billion to help defray the effects of lost crops, including for farmers who will miss planting season this year.
Schneider said that some women use radio silence to extract gifts from men, or to mete out punishment, but that it doesn't work in the long run.
In her attempt to mete out the positive news from the negative, South Korean artist ShinYoung An has found her own way to deal with the news cycle.
Some platforms, like Facebook, mete out punishment to their users, temporarily suspending them for up to 30 days; others may boot users for their first or second infraction.
Come on, if you can't mete out even a modicum of justice in a situation as blatant as this, then you deserve all the Elizabeth Warren you get.
Authorities have said that they had no other choice but to mete out those new rules and punishments as pictures emerged of packed businesses, streets, parks, and events.
Although Blizzard later halved Chung's ban to six months and reinstated his prize money, it has continued to mete out bans to other esports competitors who've pulled similar stunts.
So, the overarching message from President Obama addresses the destruction of America and the rise of white nationalists who clearly feel empowered to mete out justice, John Wick-style.
When he thought he was protecting his daughters, they were afraid to tell him about anything that happened to them lest he mete out swift and excessively violent judgment.
To turn the mass incarceration ship around, we have to take a hard look at the sentences we mete out to people who are convicted of more serious crimes.
It is known for its violence, with leaders willing to mete out punishment against their fellow Trinitarios by giving a "greenlight" to attack those who violate the gang's laws.
Under his leadership, the agency has taken steps that undercut enforcement of the so-called "pattern of violations" rule, which enables regulators to mete out strict penalties to unsafe operators.
It's entirely up to Niantic and you can be sure they're going to mete out these little guys over several months, interspersed with other events — anything to keep you catching.
Which makes it all the more satisfying when Sansa and Arya are able to turn the tables on his, strip him of his power, and mete out the justice he deserved.
Former Cade councilor Olavo Chinaglia told Reuters last week that the agency's staff has learned to weather political and corporate pressure, and feels willing to mete out tougher punishment, if necessary.
If you really believe that law and order could melt down at any moment, after all, it seems risky to mete out crucial survival goods on a month-by-month basis.
"We want to mete out to counterfeiters the punishment they deserve in order to protect brand owners," the statement quoted Zheng Junfang, Chief Platform Governance Officer of Alibaba Group, as saying.
The rawness of the violence is startling, partly because despite "Atomic Blonde" and other female-driven movies, it's still unusual to see a woman receive (and freely mete out) such barbarity.
Seemingly caught between enforcing uniform protocols and potentially getting crosswise with the commander in chief, the Navy, at least for the moment, punted on deciding whether to mete out any punishment.
Compounding the problem, they say, is the fact that Chinese universities and research institutes suffer from a lack of oversight, and mete out weak punishments for those who are caught cheating.
Curfews and social distancing will hopefully help mete out the number of infections slowly—because 183 million patients over 18 months will be more manageable than 2 million over six months.
As a book and a show, "Watchmen" is about how history might have been rewritten if self-styled heroes in masks decided to mete out extralegal justice as they saw fit.
The Fed is seeking a $62 million fine, while the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will seek to mete out its own punishment, according to people briefed on the investigations.
And everyone here wanted to speculate early for when it happened, to mete out Judgement Day's cataclysm unequally and build a privatized new world that, intentionally or not, kept things that way.
Dana White says the UFC will not mete out punishment for Conor McGregor's bus attack until AFTER the New York City judge issues a ruling ... which means it could take a while.
BEIJING — As the United States and China swap threats and mete out increasingly punishing tariffs, the world is watching to see whether Beijing turns to one of its most potent economic weapons.
Though its statement made clear that future violations could result in harsher punishment, it neglected to say that only one individual could mete out that punishment: the president of the United States.
In 1989, when Deng Xiaoping ordered the Army to put down the Tiananmen uprising, the Communists were able to mete out punishment behind closed doors, just as No Name's father had done.
That would include seizures by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), which can confiscate ill-gotten gains but not mete out criminal sanctions on companies it regulates, including the country's biggest banks.
It may have been better for the White House to maintain total silence if it was truly so unwilling to mete out the colorful tidbits about the speechwriting process that the public enjoys.
"Bad Rabbi" includes a sample of Kuper's reportage — on a court where criminals mete out justice to their own — that is every bit as flavorsome and sardonic as a Bashevis Singer short story.
I waited to be sent away from the table for this heresy — or for my mother to mete out the real punishment later, to the backs of my legs with a wooden spoon.
She portrayed, too, the vulnerability and ill health of her family members, unflinching images that convey that what is shameful is not the body that suffers but rather the systems that mete out violence.
If the ban is overturned, pressure is likely to intensify on the International Olympic Committee to discipline the Russian Federation as a whole rather than defer to individual sports' bodies to mete out punishment.
But it's also never shied away from the idea that justice is something for institutions to mete out (usually poorly) and mercy is something human beings should generally try to show to each other.
"This new panel will undoubtedly increase the pressure on the NYPD to mete out unjustly heavy-handed discipline, further damaging police officers' morale and due process rights," said PBA president Patrick Lynch in a statement.
As if on cue, the criminal indictment underscores one of the clearest takeaways from Isaac's fair-minded book: that Silicon Valley is most eager to mete out justice when one man threatens another man's money.
The water will still trickle down into the city's old drainage system, but filtering through the wetland will mete out the water from even the largest deluges more gradually, preventing storm drains from becoming overwhelmed.
If the judiciary is going to better police itself, it must overcome its historical impulse to shield bad actors from consequences they would not hesitate to mete out to people who don't wear black robes.
Previously, it was China's science ministry and its universities that had the power to police and punish offending scientists, but now, "dozens of government agencies" have been bestowed the power to mete out penalties, Cyranoski writes.
Cloud agreements will be: actively connected to the identities of the involved parties (forever), able to mete out payments as contract objectives are met and actively contact actors in the transaction when the time is right.
The U.S. strikes were "quite measured [as] the administration wants to mete out punishment" without getting embroiled in a long-term conflict, said Behnam Ben Taleblu, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
In addition, the legal problems may place Mr. Goodell in the uncomfortable position of having to mete out some kind of punishment for the personal conduct of a man who is essentially one of his bosses.
The move signaled the United States is no longer willing to tolerate the actions of Chinese entities that support Pyongyang and plans to mete out punishment in the form of financial sanctions to alter behavior, experts said.
Afterward, still in the pickup truck, Lana and Meredith handed out powdered raspberry donuts to women around the campground—stopping briefly to mete out treats, admire various bikes, and laugh about the wild joy of the weekend.
Experts said the Insys verdict could encourage other corporate prosecutions and said it demonstrated that the public was willing to mete out penalties for high-level executives at companies profiting from the sales of highly addictive painkillers.
" • "Experts said the Insys verdict could encourage other corporate prosecutions and said it demonstrated that the public was willing to mete out penalties for high-level executives at companies profiting from the sales of highly addictive painkillers.
While the police department's internal inquiry of him has been completed, the results are unknown and police officials are waiting to mete out any potential discipline — up to and including termination — until the federal government resolves its own case.
As president, Ms. Rousseff has refused to seek vengeance against her torturers, and she was widely praised for backing a National Truth Commission that exposed the abuses of the era but did not mete out punishments to the accused.
There is a Mafia-like quality to the threats emanating from EU officials, who are acknowledged to be contemplating how much punishment they can mete out to the U.K. if the people should dare to vote the wrong way.
While she could be stern with defendants like Mr. Frankel, Judge Burns could also mete out measures of kindness and hope in sentencing wrongdoers, Edward J. Gavin, a lawyer who had represented clients before her, told The Connecticut Post.
Attempting, at one point, to communicate to Malek the kind of danger she's putting her family in, a beloved cousin grabs her own hair, imitating the treatment the security forces mete out upon women, which can include gang rape.
At its core, the Broken Earth trilogy is a story about who holds the power in this world, and how society uses and profits off of those that it marginalizes, as well as the destruction that absolute power can mete out.
While the N.F.L. will no doubt view Wednesday's decision as a victory and an affirmation of the commissioner's broad powers to mete out punishment to players he deems to have hurt the league's image, the case continues to divide fans.
America's elections cop will be stuck on the sidelines for what could be months, unable to complete investigations, mete out punishments or even give candidates advice about what is and isn't legal, just as the 22019 election season gets underway.
Fact Check In discussing the Manhattan truck attack with his cabinet on Wednesday, President Trump denounced the American criminal justice system as "a laughingstock" and "a joke" that is too weak to deter terrorism and too slow to mete out punishment.
It was the classic thing where he didn't want to hurt me, and breaking up with me would definitely hurt me, so instead he tried to mete out the hurt in tiny, imperceptible doses that he felt I wouldn't notice.
She was always something of a scapegoat, but that even she is now on her way out after doing paltry time is a testament to the ongoing failure of the American legal system to mete out proportional punishment for white-collar crime.
Yet a handful of countries have been especially eager to mete out capital punishment, including against those convicted of nonlethal crimes, while some countries that had discontinued capital punishment have resumed the practice, especially in what they consider to be terrorism cases.
The FSA will mete out the punishments after uncovering flaws in customer protection and anti-money laundering measures during on-site checks at the exchanges, the Nikkei said, without citing the source of the information or specifying what the punishments would entail.
Santa Clara County Assistant District Attorney James Gibbons-Shapiro told the San Jose Mercury News that his office does not have a legal basis to appeal the sentence because the judge was authorized by law to mete out the sentence he gave.
EU states are also reluctant to mete out tough financial penalties, because of an unwritten rule in the 28-member club that some national interests are sacred, according to the EU sources - and Germany's car industry has traditionally been one of them.
GENEVA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - A senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has urged the country's judiciary to mete out harsh sentences to what he described as "mercenaries" involved in protests against a fuel price hike last week, the judiciary's Mizan news site reported.
Instead, senior officials in the Army and at the Special Operations Command have 120 days to review and adjust training for Special Forces soldiers, re-examine American troops' role in joint counterterrorism missions with local forces, and mete out any punishments. Capt.
"Everyone is watching us to see what we will do with Solzhenitsyn — if we will mete out punishment to him or if we will just leave him alone," Yuri Andropov, then the head of the KGB, said, according to Politburo minutes cited by Remnick.
Today, it is now a mainstream position within the Democratic Party to assert that some people are guilty until they prove their innocence, and that the enraged mob is best suited to mete out justice, no matter if there is any evidence or not.
China's environment ministry has urged departments across the nation to strengthen their surveillance of steel enterprises and to mete out heavier punishments for those that break the rules, Tian Weiyong, head of the ministry's inspection bureau, was quoted as saying in the website posting.
Rather than focusing on the victims or the perpetrators, she chose to hone in on the dysfunctional institutions that fail America's students: probes led by poorly-trained professors, administrations that effectively evade responsibility, and disciplinary committees that mete out meek punishments for students deemed guilty.
On Wednesday, House Democratic leaders will mete out one form of punishment: Spurred by outrage over Ms. Omar's latest comments suggesting that pro-Israel activists "push for allegiance to a foreign country," they will put a resolution condemning anti-Semitism on the House floor.
How, then, are we to advise white people — because this film is about advising and satisfying white people — about the everyday structural and interpersonal violences they mete out, even when they are not actually stringing us up from the nearest real and actual tree?
Tim Geithner, a NY Fed governor and Treasury secretary, explained why in his book "Stress Test" Trying to mete out punishment to perpetrators during a genuinely systemic crisis—by letting major forms fail or forcing senior creditors to accept haircuts—can pour gasoline on the fire.
But like my media diet now, I want to consume 75 percent in the easiest, lightest lift way, which is skimming/reading, and then I will mete out the rest of my time to formats that take more time, such as podcasts and video and documentaries.
Many have since come to despise the ultra-hardline Sunni Muslim insurgents, who mete out brutal punishments against their opponents and have brought severe economic hardship on those living in areas they captured in a shock offensive through the north and west of Iraq in 2014-15.
As deaths from opioid abuse grow, the proposals to address this crisis have remained the same: Doctors should be more judicious about prescribing painkillers, governments should invest more in treatment facilities, and the courts should mete out stricter punishments for those who illegally sell these drugs.
Serial says that it choose Cleveland because "they were given extraordinary access to record inside courtrooms, judges' chambers, back hallways, and attorneys' offices," and used their time to look at everything from drug possession to "the most serious felonies," and will examine just how the courts work to mete out justice.
While Francis has announced other initiatives to address the crisis, including a global summit on the issue in February 2019, his acceptance of Wuerl's resignation suggests that the Vatican is prepared to mete out real consequences to those seen as having abetted the sex abuse crisis, or aided in cover-ups.
Still, it is Jorge's death that draws the novel's disparate figures into a sort of causal web, as those who knew him try to impose meaning on this random tragedy by turning it into a question of justice, an attempt to name the party or parties responsible and mete out punishment.
" Elizabeth Guss, a lawyer in New Mexico, called on readers to consider the Constitution, and resist the urge to mete out punishment: "Time and again the lawyer part of me is compelled to remind my family and friends that prison punishes by depriving a person of the right to liberty.
Ms. Kohler-Hausmann begins by puncturing the conventional wisdom that the flood of arrests for so-called quality-of-life offenses beginning in the early 1990s would have inundated the courts with misdemeanor cases, leaving judges little choice but to mete out mostly convictions and jail sentences through assembly-line justice.
Every organization needs some way to govern itself — to designate who has authority to make decisions concerning its affairs, what their powers are, and what consequences they may mete out to those beneath them in the organizational chart who fail to do their part in carrying out the organization's decisions.
Many have left the Senate chamber for long periods of time; many have rushed from the chamber on a recess to talk to the press about the case which they took an oath to mete out with "impartial justice," only to make partisan political and legal statements about what they have heard.
They worked together to single out local officials who supported the governor's 2013 re-election bid for perks and to mete out revenge to those who did not — including Mayor Mark Sokolich of Fort Lee, N.J., a Democrat who, having declined to endorse the governor, got a catastrophic traffic jam in return, prosecutors say.
As Henry finally connected with his Superhot Girl and—looking as charmed and uxorious as I have ever seen a person—led her up the carpeted stairs toward his bizarre, makeshift posse, I began to think that, beyond home and nurture, what we seek in most currency is a way to mete out dreams.
And following the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, YouTube has banned firearm demo videos and content promoting gun sales and has taken steps to remove conspiracy videos, giving Infowars two strikes for its propagation of such content (whether the company is actually willing to mete out a third and final strike remains to be seen).
The staging by Mr. Nunes, a young and in-demand German director (next month, he will direct the Bavarian State Opera's premiere of Verdi's "Les Vêpres Siciliennes"), suggests that the story is being told from the point of view of the Furies, the goddesses who mete out divine justice in the pre-legal world of Greek myth.
Marisol Rojas, a municipal official, warned that the retreat of FARC from the streets has resulted in an explosion in sexual assault in the area: ten reports in six months, compared with zero cases during the same period in 2016, when there was still fear that the guerrillas would mete out justice to rapists, as they did in times of war, Rojas said.
Practicing effective, activist mass politics in the U.S. is difficult: The nation has the world's highest incarceration rate; a militarized police force eager to mete out violence on unarmed demonstrators; widespread voter suppression; prosecutors so vengeful that nonviolent climate activists were recently charged with crimes that could lead to 110-year prison sentences; and an economy that punishes even minor transgressions with lifelong unemployability, poverty, or death.
As this fight is happening in Russia, who do not provide drug testing protocol to the same level that of the various state athletic commissions in the United States, the WBC have utilised VADA, the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency, to mete out their drug testing program for them, with the WBC having the final say on punishment for any potential test violations which occur for fights outside of the USA.
We know North Korea will test the agreement's boundaries, and so we must treat any deal as a tool for bringing them back in line rather than a "gotcha" document we can use to mete out punishment (for example, Bolton stated in his memoirs that North Korea's move toward uranium enrichment in violation of the 28503 deal "was the hammer I had been looking for to shatter the Agreed Framework").
" In the further left-leaning Boston Review, Judith Levine also saw the symptoms of a "looming sex panic," arguing that in their eagerness to see sexual abusers punished, #MeToo's supporters have forgotten that the criminal justice system is already too punitive by half: "the more we entrust the state to mete out justice for sexual infractions, including harassment," she wrote, "the more we collude in the manner in which it administers 'justice.

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