Sentence examples for has been punitive from inspiring English sources

Instead of believing, as they do in most countries, that failure in schools is not the result generally of laziness or incompetence, the whole philosophy of Ofsted has been punitive.

His most notable initiative in dealing with youth crime has been punitive: the passage of a law last July that required a minimum sentence for repeat offenders and in many cases allowed minors between 16 and 18 years old to be tried and sentenced as adults.

Apparently, Google's Panda update has been punitive only to platforms other than Google's.

"Keeping this river in a straitjacket — off-limits to even the people who live alongside it — has been punitive to the environment and the community," Reyes said.

There have been punitive operations in defence of empire, cold war operations, post-9/11 support for the US, and the Troubles in Ireland.

The outrage would've been punitive and nearly universal.

Veteran legislators say he has been less punitive than his predecessors, sometimes to his detriment.

She has been more punitive and frightening than Julie Andrews ever was, but she has nonetheless managed to evoke the powerful emotions — in particular, children's deep fear of abandonment — that have always been at the story's core.

In the Madoff case, Picard has been particularly punitive toward investors who "knew or should have known" that Madoff was crooked; that is, people who, in the trustee's view, ignored red flags that should have alerted them to Madoff's wrongdoing.

To further his case against Selig and baseball, McCourt demanded a lengthy list of documents and other evidence that would show, in part, that M.L.B. has been unnecessarily punitive in its handling of the Dodgers' financial crisis, compared with the "velvet glove" treatment of other teams with money problems.

In some ways, India has been implementing punitive measures against Pakistan for years.