Sentence examples for punitive attack from inspiring English sources

California voters had passed Proposition 103, a punitive attack on car insurance companies.

The memo suggests a "punitive attack" against 12 targets listed as command centres, airfields and naval bases.

There's a pattern to the disasters: a punitive attack on the selfishness of the rich can't pass itself off as the mere impersonal merciless working out of fate.

The Supreme Court has accepted a case that will decide the constitutionality of a critical element of Congress's harshly punitive attack on the federally financed legal services program, which assists poor people with legal problems.

The US and Britain unleashed air strikes against Iraq last night in a punitive attack aimed at Saddam Hussein's capacity to produce chemical, biological and nuclear arms, after the Iraqi dictator refused to co-operate with UN weapons inspections.

A vote on the proposed punitive attack is expected sometime after Congress returns to formal session Sept. 9. Approval by a skeptical Congress is far from assured, with Democratic votes likely to determine the outcome.

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

After 648 the Assyrians made a few punitive attacks on the Arabs, breaking the forward thrust of the Arab tribes for a long time to come.

Ming and Korean punitive attacks on Manchu strongholds in 1619 were beaten back, and in 1627 the Manchu overran northern Korea.

He now expects punitive attacks by Pakistan's army, and, as a result, "we are going to have a never-ending war".The Taliban have a history of targeting the country's pupils.

However, as some observers point out, there may be punitive attacks by militants against Indian forces in Kashmir "at an appropriate time".