Sentence examples for major punitive from inspiring English sources

The major punitive measures directed by Öz Beg against Tver with Muscovite support were a part of this pattern.

An increasingly common response is to install ad blockers, a trend that is having a major punitive effect on the industry.

Washington has rescinded travel restrictions on Mr. Thein Sein but his administration is also seeking the lifting of a ban on imports from Myanmar, one of the last major punitive measures that the United States has in place.

Ironically, prisons were promoted more than 200 years ago as humane alternatives to the often raucous and violent scaffold mutilations and executions that were the major punitive responses to serious crimes until the 19th century.

But the lawmakers' technical sophistication was mostly irrelevant — by the end of the session, the warning had been sent: In order to avoid a much harsher regulatory glare that could include major punitive measures, Facebook needs to stop apologizing, get its act together, and show that it is capable of changing.

The decision was one of the first major punitive trade actions by the Trump Administration, which has vowed to defend U.S. workers against imports.

The frequency-of-award findings are consistent with all major studies of punitive damages.

Much of the distress was caused by the outrage and humiliation the Campbells suffered at the actions of their insurer; and it is a major role of punitive damages to condemn such conduct.

It is, indeed, astonishing that one the major architects of the punitive and ineffective bailouts in Greece, Ireland and Portugal, should now found herself at the helm of the IMF.

The regiment was mobilized on 23 June 1916 and served along the Mexican border for five months as part of the Mexican Punitive Expedition under Major General John J. Pershing, although no National Guard units fought Mexican troops.

Along the Amazon and its major tributaries, repeated slaving raids and punitive attacks left their mark.