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We have women who are killed by their husbands but we don't have any legitimate terror offences... "Yet the amount of money put into negative policing and punitive measures has really soured relations between Muslim community and ramped up the sense of fear and isolation in the community".
While the navy's actions received no punishment, this strongly contrasts with the Australian government's aggressive crackdown on the boats of our Indonesian neighbours and its ongoing effects on their families, who suffer punitive circumstances.
"Pakistan's government is tarnishing the country's well-deserved reputation for hospitality toward refugees by tolerating the punitive and potentially unlawful coercive repatriation of Afghan refugees," said HRW's deputy Asia director, Phelim Kine.
For the past 18 months, the finance minister, Jan Kees De Jager, has been the loudest advocate for the most rigorous austerity for the bailed-out countries of the eurozone, and for the punitive new fiscal rules.
I am tired of the punitive practice, the fear, the paperwork, the audits, the inspections and the nights on the sofa sobbing after another dreadful shift.
On Friday Carr denied Australia had been too quick to back a US-led strike against Syria as Barack Obama struggled to persuade other world leaders to support punitive military action in response to the Assad regime's alleged use of chemical weapons.
"The relationship between the Biennale and the punitive practice of mandatory detention is a context that I feel I am unable to work within," he said.
But the prime minister reserved his harshest language for Miliband's plan to withhold a planned coalition cut in corporation tax on large businesses, citing the punitive impact the policy would have on a company such as Jaguar Land Rover, which sells cars around the world.
Hope of ascent up the parliamentary pecking order – or fear of a punitive pecking by a rival faction – often comes before appraisal of the arguments.
Even as pilotless drones and missiles have the potential to usher in an age of US casualty-free interventions, Obama is trying to summon Americans to take up a punitive role yet again.
He added that action was needed to help people build "precautionary savings" to avoid debt and to protect those who fall behind in repayments from punitive charges.
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The adjective "punitive" primarily functions to modify nouns, describing actions, measures, or policies intended as punishment . It adds a layer of meaning that conveys the purpose of inflicting a penalty or consequence for wrongdoing. Ludwig AI confirms its correct usage in numerous examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
