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WALL STREET is often criticised for heaping gold on bankers in fat years, but failing to penalise them in lean ones.

He rejected calls for a bag ban or charges, which could penalise shoppers at a time of financial hardship.

Some politicians and activists believe attitudes could be changed by tax laws that penalise investors who trade in and out of stocks.

If you do penalise a foul from behind you need to judge its severity: if it infringes the first statement, award a free kick.

The new Basel 3 rules will penalise banks with too much wholesale or cross-border borrowing, and with good reason.

In its settlement with BJ's, the FTC used its broad "fairness authority" to penalise bad information-security management.

And price rises can be managed so that they do not penalise the poorest.

Governments should penalise businesses that mislead the public.

Tax codes that penalise productive urban regions, and encourage quiet lives in less productive areas, do little for growth.

Penalise failure too harshly and "you risk creating bureaucrats, " says Ira Kay of Pay Governance, an executive-pay consultancy.

I've managed to do only one run with dry weather tyres, I don't have a picture of where we are. But this won't penalise me in the race.

Capital ratios that penalise risky activities could make them less profitable, persuading banks to ditch them.

Coase claimed that a Pigovian tax would penalise producers and consumersand might have other undesireable side-effects.

They are better than overarching regulations that penalise the good with the bad.

Lax intellectual-property rights penalise cutting-edge research.

From 2012 a European emissions-trading scheme is to replace national taxes: it will penalise longer flights and emptier planes.

Both Labour and the Tories would use the payments system of the internal market to reward quality and penalise poor care.

And if investors fear they could lose money tomorrow, they may penalise badly run banks today.

Penalise the first offence: award an indirect free-kick for offside.

the reform of unemployment benefit, in order to penalise claimants who refuse two job offers, while improving services for job-seekers.

In India Hindu nationalists want to penalise Christians who make converts.

Such provisions penalise developing countries in particular, while, more generally, undermining the flow of capital across countries.

A lot of them are unmarried, and many of those who are wed think it unfair to penalise single mothers.

Job centres that refuse to penalise people who turn down a job by cutting their benefits face legal action from the potential employer.

The latter would penalise developing countries, because they tend to use much more carbon-intensive technologies.