(a.) Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.
Example Sentences:
(1) She recently collaborated on two damning reports into punitive house burnings and extra-judicial killings in Chechnya, allegedly carried out by Kadyrov's forces.
(2) The second cause for alarm is more real – the insistence on imposing exemplary, or punitive, damages on those who don't join the regulator (and, in some circumstances, even those who do).
(3) Jeremy Hunt has been forced into a partial climbdown in his dispute with NHS junior doctors in an attempt to stop their fury at a threatened punitive new contract spilling over into strike action.
(4) Professor David Nutt, director of the neuropsychopharmacology unit at Imperial College, London, and former chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs , said the report provided strong evidence "that the costs of the current punitive approaches to cannabis control are massively disproportionate to the harms of the drug, and shows that more sensible approaches would provide significant financial benefits to the UK as well as reducing social exclusion and injustice".
(5) The concept of punitive unconscious self-criticism and the concept of divergent conflict, provide sufficient explanatory power.
(6) Indeed watching the prime minister singling out unemployed youngsters for uniquely punitive measures while pretending it is for their own good, cheered on by a gang of braying chums, it looks less like the behaviour of a national statesman and more like the petty vindictiveness of a schoolyard bully.
(7) "The legal system has lost all sense of mercy and justice and it has been replaced with punitiveness and vindictiveness," Stinebrickner-Kauffman told Mail Online .
(8) The UK was the first to respond with punitive measures, cutting all ties to the Iranian banking system and parliament, the Majlis, which retaliated on Sunday by calling for the expulsion of Britain's ambassador, Dominick Chilcott, and the permanent downgrading of bilateral relations.
(9) "The special rapporteur concludes that imposing seriously punitive conditions of detention on someone who has not been found guilty of any crime is a violation of his right to physical and psychological integrity as well as of his presumption of innocence," Mendez writes.
(10) The rhetoric that sees innocent people labelled “marauding,” “swarms” and “cockroaches” is what makes it permissible for society to imprison them, and it should come as no surprise that women and children are at particular risk from punitive immigration laws.
(11) Clinton’s involvement in the Iran debate subtly positions the Democratic frontrunner as an Iran hawk who is less hopeful of the diplomatic bargain ending US grievances with Tehran than she is cautious about Washington fracturing a diplomatic coalition needed to enforce punitive measures on Iran.
(12) It is higher than the rate that might be available in a bailout and becomes punitive for borrowers in the private sector once it has percolated through the banking system.
(13) Instead, it has been enforced at huge human cost – forced late-term abortions , a worsening gender gap , increased trauma and economic stress for parents who lose their only child, and punitive fines for families such as Li's.
(14) In Hebron, meanwhile, it was reported that the Israeli military had blown up the houses of two Hamas members named by Israel as suspects in the abduction Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Eisheh – the first punitive house demolitions since Israel halted the practice in 2005.
(15) No 10 has decided legislation, which would apply in England and Wales, will be needed to introduce a tougher punitive element to community sentences.
(16) 12.31am GMT Mikheil Saakashvili, president of Georgia at a time when that country fought a five-day war with Russia in 2008 over the Georgian breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, has been pushing for the US to take punitive financial measures against Russia.
(17) That ended the threat of US-led punitive action, already weakened by the dramatic "no" vote in the UK parliament.
(18) Nick Clegg, in his advocacy of a less punitively oriented criminal justice system, deserves widespread support ( This knife law won't work, 8 May).
(19) And then there are small banks, where management is held accountable and the charges are 20 times more punitive for them.
(20) And the second is that, in this context, the administration of social assistance, I am told, has become more and more punitive."
Retaliatory
Definition:
(a.) Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They have a retaliatory doctrine," Salah argued of the police, whose brutality was a major cause of Egypt's 2011 uprising , but who have become more popular after backing Morsi's overthrow.
(2) Kassem has seen this happen in other cases, he says, with placement on no-fly lists used as a retaliatory tactic by law enforcement after approached members of the Muslim community had refused to become informants.
(3) For more than 300,000 Jewish settlers in more than 200 locations in the West Bank, the Israeli military is obliged to intervene if there is retaliatory Palestinian violence.
(4) In a move many saw as retaliatory, Spain tightened controls at the border, leading to queues of up to eight hours for people trying to enter Gibraltar.
(5) Putting an end to retaliatory evictions is a good place to start.” Also in parliament, Labour will lead a vote on amendments tabled to the consumer rights bill in the House of Lords to protect people in the housing market.
(6) As the journalist Anand Gopal has explained brilliantly , powerbrokers such as AWK and the Barakzai strongman and former Kandahar governor Gul Agha Sherzai not only seized control of Nato purse-strings by acquiring lucrative contracts, but they also manipulated US intelligence and US special forces to gain help with their predatory and retaliatory agenda.
(7) The mob violence was followed the next day by retaliatory attacks by gangs of Middle Eastern youths who went on the rampage in the beachside suburb, smashing cars and beating up innocent passers-by.
(8) Her treatment prompted retaliatory action against US diplomats in India that culminated in Washington cancelling a planned trip by its energy secretary, Ernest Moniz.
(9) Nina Ognianova, of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said: “Today’s ruling ordering Khadija Ismayilova freed is cause for celebration, but doesn’t erase the rank injustice of her imprisonment for a year and a half on retaliatory charges.
(10) As hot air was vented on social media, the foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said on Monday that Russia for now would not "fall into hysterics" or take retaliatory measures.
(11) With more effective enforcement, landlords would realise retaliatory eviction costs them more money.
(12) Most military analysts say retaliatory action by the Syrian regime is unlikely, though possible.
(13) Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday that Christian militias – including soldiers of the deposed regime, responding to "rampant abuses" by Muslim armed groups – had killed hundreds around the country, sparking further retaliatory attacks.
(14) In a statement, Ailes called Carlson’s suit “retaliatory for the network’s decision not to renew her contract, which was due to the fact that her disappointingly low ratings were dragging down the afternoon lineup … This defamatory lawsuit is not only offensive, it is wholly without merit and will be defended vigorously.” Ailes’s personal counsel and spokespeople for 21st Century Fox have not replied to requests for comment on the claim that his accusers now number more than 20.
(15) Adenosine is a local hormone or a retaliatory metabolite that executes its effect via a plasma membrane receptor, the R-site.
(16) He warned of retaliatory action and declared that there would be "no winners" in a trade war, according to the official China news agency.
(17) While we have full confidence in Mr Ailes and Mr Doocy, who have served the company brilliantly for over two decades, we have commenced an internal review of the matter.” Ailes also released a statement, in which he called the allegations “defamatory” and “retaliatory for the network’s decision not to renew her contract, which was due to the fact that her disappointingly low ratings were dragging down the afternoon lineup”.
(18) The old policy, I am afraid to say, does not command much confidence.” April 2017: new sanctions against Syria and Russia After last week’s chemical weapons attack in northern Syria , and the retaliatory US missile strike on a Syrian airbase, Johnson returned to the tougher talk now also shared in part by the Trump administration.
(19) The bulk of the casualties in the attacks on churches belonged to the Igbo people , and this has already led to retaliatory attacks in parts of south-eastern Nigeria.
(20) The prime minister, by training a research chemist, acknowledged that the government might be considered negligent for failing to acquire a “retaliatory capability” at the height of the cold war.