Sentence examples for immediate punitive from inspiring English sources

At the time, political leaders across the spectrum were responding to soaring violent crime rates, which many believed required an immediate, punitive response.

Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for Hamas, said the evidence included in the report demanded "immediate punitive measures against the occupation commanders" and urged that it be made available to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Name-calling, mandating immediate and punitive solutions, going on the attack, and ruining reputations are not effective tactics for progress.

"Collecting, storing and selling information about political activity and trade union membership is exactly what led to the closure of the Consulting Association in 2009, and it is appalling that the regulator is not taking immediate and punitive action when complaints are received".

The framework deal however does not include immediate lifting of punitive sanctions imposed on Iran.

Judge Enslen ordered an immediate ban on punitive restraints in three Jackson prisons holding 4,500 inmates.

The Kremlin said yesterday that Mr Putin had called for an "immediate halt" to the "punitive military operation".

Russia called for an "immediate end to the punitive operation and violent actions" of Ukrainian government forces, demanding "the withdrawal of troops".

Although contaminated injecting equipment is the immediate source, augmented by unprotected sexual intercourse, punitive approaches rooted in perceptions of drug injecting as illegal behavior are fuelling expanding epidemics, particularly in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The EU refrained from immediate sanctions on Russia, but has lined up punitive measures on "cronies" of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Analysts project that the de facto devaluation would be not only immediate — estimates range from 30 to 40 percent — but extremely punitive, given the high household and corporate debts that burden Cypriots.