Sentence examples for negative sanctions from inspiring English sources

Parental negativity was assessed using the Negative Sanctions subscale adapted from a previously well-validated parent child relationship measure (Dunn et al. 2003; Hetherington and Clingempeel 1992).

Economic statecraft takes many different forms, including both positive and negative sanctions.

Negative sanctions are actual or threatened punishments, whereas positive sanctions are actual or promised rewards.

The Economic and Social Development Fund of France has exercised negative sanctions by withholding building permits for unapproved sites.

Norms may be internalized i.e., incorporated within the individual so that there is conformity without external rewards or punishments, or they may be enforced by positive or negative sanctions from without.

Examples of negative sanctions include the following: refusing to export (embargoes), refusing to import (boycotts), covert refusals to trade (blacklists), purchases intended to keep goods out of the hands of target countries (preclusive buying), deprivation of ownership (expropriation), punitive taxation, aid suspensions, and asset freezes.

Punishment (negative sanction) and reward (positive sanction) regulate conduct in conformity with social norms (see norm).

In a similar vein, Dixon-Woods et al. [ 20] discuss new managerial governance tools as a threat to doctors and a kind of negative sanction to be applied if doctors are not able and willing to establish more effective self-governing control, as highlighted by the scandals in the National Health Service (NHS) in England.

Finally, there is the possibility of a normative mechanism, whereby commitments made in public lead to adherence because of negative social sanctions that might follow from reneging on them.

The patient was briefed in detail orally as well as in written form about the fact that neither his agreement nor his denial to participate in the study would lead to positive or negative consequences, sanctions, advantages or disadvantages for him.

But is it possible to accentuate the positive, and reduce the inevitable negative, effect of sanctions?