Sentence examples for punitive about from inspiring English sources

There's something punitive about lingering over items like this online.

"Putting outcast people offshore -- there's something punitive about it".

While the doctor is not punitive about such signs of addiction, he's not a patsy, either.

There is something robotic, gruelling, and, of course, punitive about bulimia that Beecroft captures in the performances.

What has replaced the lingering puritanism is a more acute sense of power relations; we have become at once less shockable about the erotic and more punitive about the uses of power.

The political scientist Scott Althaus has calculated that a voter with more knowledge of politics will, on balance, be less eager to go to war, less punitive about crime, more tolerant on social issues, less accepting of government control of the economy, and more willing to accept taxes in order to reduce the federal deficit.

"This isn't about being punitive, but about showing leadership through social responsibility.

A8 Jury Awards in Line With Judges' A study of nearly 9,000 trials across the country has found that judges award punitive damages about as often as juries and generally in about the same proportions.

But a comprehensive study of nearly 9,000 trials across the country has found that judges award punitive damages about as often as juries and generally in about the same proportions.

Besides making us more punitive, thinking about death also increases our nationalistic bias, makes us more prejudiced against other racial, religious and age groups, and leads to other such parochial attitudes.

He also complained strongly about the way Labour marked the publication of the IPPR's Condition of Britain report by using it to announce an apparently punitive policy about the withdrawal of benefits from some 18 to 21-year-olds.