Sentence examples for for punitive measures from inspiring English sources
Pressure was building for punitive measures against Swiss economic interests.
SPECTACULAR failure though it was, North Korea's latest rocket launching calls for punitive measures from America and its allies.
Protesters have long been calling for punitive measures, but the EU had until now favoured incentives and compromise.
Kurtzer agreed, saying that pressuring the University to "become a tool for punitive measures" is a subversion of its role as a place for intellectual discussion and diversity.
The Enough Project has called for punitive measures including seizing the homes, bank accounts and shell companies of anyone undermining the peace process.
Hardliners will call for punitive measures including tit-for-tat expulsions, but more pragmatic voices will hope the episode can be ignored and quickly forgotten.
What came next, in her opinion, set the stage for decades of punitive measures that ultimately resulted in today's phenomenon of mass incarceration.
The differences – on whether an initial resolution should include the threat of punitive measures for Syrian non-compliance – were a reminder that the Geneva agreement could still unravel before it is put into force.
But these authorities say West Germany, Italy and several other Western European countries remain economically entangled with Libya and averse to suggestions of punitive measures for terrorist activity, most recently the attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports.
The Commons Speaker granted Tuesday's unusual three-hour emergency debate to give MPs their first chance to discuss the case for a no-fly zone and for fresh punitive measures against Russia, including tougher economic sanctions and action in the international criminal courts.
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.
