'a punitive action' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to any kind of disciplinary or deterrent action taken against someone in order to punish them for a wrong-doing. For example, "The company implemented a punitive action against the employee who had been found to be stealing supplies."
"This is not a punitive action, it's self-protection," he said.
Some 60 Members of Congress also signed a letter to the President protesting the "firing of this dedicated public servant" as a "punitive action". Id. at 115-116.
But to ask them to move their average pay down from a hundred and thirty-five thousandollarsrs to eighty-nine thousand dollarsituationatinn in which some people are going to have to put their homes on the market or take kids out of college, can only be described as a punitive action from a board that has other priorities.
This month, even as Indonesia was being booed at the United Nations for reiterating its support for the death penalty for drug offenders – a punitive action that runs counter to international law – the attorney general Muhammad Prasetyo indicated that another round would go ahead.
The second expression, "disciplinary action," refers to a punitive action imposed by an external source.
However, quality assessment is an educational exercise, not a punitive action; its aim is to assist laboratories in their continuous effort towards a higher quality services as we communicated with local labs before the implementation of assessment.
Darius waived any punitive action.
But experts say Washington is unlikely to resort to any punitive action.
"There was a concern that given what's going on in the global economy and the emerging protectionist sentiment in many parts of the world," he said, "how dangerous it is to take a unilateral punitive action that could lead to a trade war or that would be unsettling to the markets".
On Monday, NATO members bickered over whether what began as a relatively straightforward effort aimed at preventing Gaddafi from launching airstrikes against his people had turned into a more punitive action directed at his military forces, according to a European diplomat.
The executions were a rare punitive action used to deal with the participants of a failed coup in Syria, with the typical punishment being exile, imprisonment or reassignment to a foreign diplomatic post.
