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Punitive

Definition:

(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."