As punishment God's vengeance would be directed against Israel, and the prophet warns his audience: " Is not the day of the LORD darkness, not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?

However, there is also a minority view within some Muslims that capital punishment is not justified in the light of Qur ' an.

Authorities often let the unlawful parents and doctors off with light punishment.

In light of Magliocco's failing health, the Commission imposed a very lenient punishment — a $ 43, 000 fine and ordering him to hand over leadership of his family to Colombo.

If the party was dissrupted, there would be a punishment ; usually the light in your eyes would be blown out.

And by the invocation of Thy need persons we beseech Thee for the increase in knowledge, health of the body, increase in the life tenure, for Thy obedience, abundance in the sustenance, repentance before death, ease at the time of death, forgiveness after death, the light in the grave, redemption from the hell fire, admission in the paradise and rescue from all calamities of the world and punishment of the next world by the grace of Mohammad and his best, pure and infallible progeny.

In his pre-flight training, Ham was taught to push a lever within five seconds of seeing a flashing blue light ; failure to do so resulted in an application of positive punishment in the form of a mild electric shock to the soles of his feet, while a correct response earned him a banana pellet.

Dumas describes Rockefeller as the “ most liberal governor in Arkansas history ” in light of his attempts to increase taxes to augment the size and scope of state government as well as steadfast support for civil rights and opposition to capital punishment.

People were indignant that the penalty of death for political crimes had been abolished by the constitution of 1848 ; even death seemed too light a punishment.

It is repeatedly noticed throughout the story of her captivity, that Rowlandson relies heavily upon her puritan faith, often quoting bible verses to reinforce her descriptions of a world of dichotomies: punishment and retribution, darkness and light, and good and evil.

However, Major General Oliver O. Howard, an advocate for African American civil rights and in charge of the trial, acquitted Smith of all charges and gave him a light punishment for unruly conduct.

The Spectre, in his characteristically ironic fashion, chose this punishment because of Light's abuse of his ability to manipulate light.

Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, a Varela Project leader and one of the 75 activists arrested, reported serving 45 days in a punishment cell with no light or available water for protesting the suspension of correspondence and the delivery of food and medical supplies from his family.

Many people protested the apparently light punishment meted out, since it would cost Marichal only one or two starts.

Casematte were also used as military prisons, making use of their lack of light to add to the punishment.

On being found guilty of regicide, he received the relatively light sentence of life imprisonment, rather than the usual traitor's punishment of being hanged, drawn and quartered, because he tried to intervene on the King's behalf and only signed the death warrant after being intimidated by the other commissioners.

However, in light of a 2002 U. S. Supreme Court ruling, in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U. S. 304 ( 2002 ), that overturned the death penalty for the mentally retarded, Simmons filed a new petition for state post conviction relief, and the Supreme Court of Missouri concluded that " a national consensus has developed against the execution of the mentally retarded " and held that such punishment now violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

Thus, the tendency has been to rely on light punishment, especially on fines, and to emphasize short sentences of a few weeks or months.

When a number of advisorial officials subsequently submitted objections that Yuan's punishment was too light, Emperor Muzong stripped Yuan of one of his ceremonial posts as the director of Changchun Palace ( 長春宮, in Tong Prefecture ).

This is the level of ' day-to-day ' justice, minor cases generally settled by limited fines or light corporal punishment.

The Constable of Saint Helier stated that he had felt obliged to put forward the amendment in the light of the recent incident at Victoria College, and that corporal punishment was a barbaric relic.

Q's attempt to help arrest the four is recognized, and his punishment is relatively light, with Q's rehabilition to include repairing a small planet, the third in distance from a Class G star that had been thriving with dinosaurs.

Thus to has light stress both in that was the conclusion that I came to and in that was the conclusion I came to.

Starting with the room completely blacked out, as it was when we came in, he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of glare.

He had to look for other prospects, other motives until more conclusive evidence pointing to Johnston came to light.

The room was bathed in light at the instant Muller's second shot came.

In fact, He came into this world Himself, in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, who stood here amid the darkness of human sin and said: `` I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life ''.

But the rain came more heavily, and men and women in light summer clothes began to depart.

I walked around breathing the cold wine of the air until I found a park, and I sat down on a snowy bench where the light was dim and came from the sky.

Richard's dark eyes came up and seemed for the tiniest moment to reflect sharp light.

As soon as Schliemann came on the Mycenae graves three years later, light poured from all sides on the prehistoric period of Greece.

A number of serious concerns about the technical abilities of the system came to light, many of which reached popular magazines such as Scientific American.

In March 2011, it came to light that senior MassDOT officials had failed to disclose an issue with the lighting fixtures in the O ' Neill tunnel.

The Labour Party returned the donation when the scandal came to light.

The name came about when Fulcher was operating a light show that created a bubble effect by mixing oils and water on projection slides.

Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism.

The exception came during the 1923 – 24 season when Charlton wore the colours of Catford Southend as part of the proposed move to Catford, which were light and dark blue stripes.

This came to be known as Tenebrism, the shift from light to dark with little intermediate value.

Following the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the Macpherson Report recommended that the double jeopardy rule should be abrogated in murder cases, and that it should be possible to subject an acquitted murder suspect to a second trial if " fresh and viable " new evidence later came to light.

After Zwicky's initial observations, the first indication that the mass to light ratio was anything other than unity came from measurements made by Horace Babcock.

His theory of the photoelectric effect ( for which he won the Nobel prize for physics ) posited that light could exist in discrete particle-like quantities, which later came to be known as photons.

However, evidence came to light about safety concerns with the new drug which caused some insurers to stop funding it even though marketing approval was not withdrawn.

As Bopp based his research on the best available sources and incorporated every new item of information that came to light, his work continued to widen and deepen in the making.

A major innovation in small arms and light artillery came in the second half of the 19th century when ammunition, previously delivered as separate bullets and powder, was combined in a single metallic ( usually brass ) cartridge containing a percussion cap, powder, and a bullet in one weatherproof package.

The Hungarian tribes of Árpád vezér who came to settle in the Carpathian Basin were noted for their fearsome light cavalry, which conducted frequent raids throughout much of Western Europe ( as far as present-day Spain ), maintaining their military supremacy with long range and rapid-firing reflex bows.