Sentence examples for a very punitive step from inspiring English sources

It's a very punitive step, as far as we're concerned".

It's a very punitive crowd, and anyone who steps over the line gets into trouble.

"It's been a very punitive process".

"It was a very punitive process.

"Dallas truancy courts have a very punitive culture," said Deborah Fowler, Texas Appleseed's director.

"It's a very positive step.

This is a very positive step.

"Hopefully, this is a positive step rather than a punitive step," said Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, the California Democrat who sponsored one of the state's several pending reporting bills.

The aid reduction to the Egyptian military affects deliveries of weaponry and cash assistance -- a punitive step aimed at expressing Washington's disapproval for the wide-ranging crackdown on Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood over the last three months.

I think that there's a very short step, as Will [Davies] has indicated, from surveys to a kind of punitive surveillance".

"That's a very welcome step".