Sentence examples for punitive by from inspiring English sources

They tried to make community sentences look punitive by putting offenders in yellow jackets emblazoned with Community Payback.

And although royalties on copper mines above 4% are regarded as punitive by international standards, government officials have been talking about 15%.

The approach is necessarily punitive by design.

The reporting requirements, which are significantly higher than for any other corporation, charity or organization under Canadian tax law, have been called punitive by labor groups.

Over the next decade, this funding system was felt to be punitive by some and regarded by many as diverting valuable time from care delivery [ 64].

Two studies (Roth et al. 2009; Voas et al. 2001) demonstrated that making the alternative to installation more punitive by requiring home confinement or jail as the alternative to the interlock increased installation rates substantially.

But demonstrations, countered by harsh punitive action by the security forces, began in Egypt, the largest of the Arab states; they spread across the country, with Cairo's Tahrir Square becoming the central stage.

There's no way of knowing how many other Owens are working at America's universities, trapped into similarly untenable and punitive agreements by financial need and by professors' and institutions' failure to provide basic information about the positions' obligations.

The project uses restorative justice as an alternative to punitive practices by convening all participants affected by crime or conflict.

A series of conflicts between Iran, Europe and the United States meant that Iranians tasted sanctions numerous times, culminating in several punitive measures by the U.N. Security Council and unilateral sanctions by the U.S. and EU after 2005.

Instead, they braced for possible punitive steps by the United States and Israel.