Sentence examples for punitive campaign from inspiring English sources

Iran has mostly resorted to a punitive campaign of arrests and executions to tackle drugs.

The Constitution-Protecting Army (Hufajun), made up of southern troops, launched a punitive campaign against the government in Beijing and succeeded in pushing northward through Hunan.

At a minimum, Pakistan would like to prevent the Americans from declaring it to be a state sponsor of terrorism or from undertaking a punitive campaign that would further undermine Pakistan's economic prospects.

The Jats had once again started plundering the royal highway between Agra and Delhi; however, while Farrukh-Siyar deputed Raja Jai Singh to lead a punitive campaign against them, the vizier negotiated a settlement over the raja's head.

After a rare terrorist attack in downtown Grozny, in December, 2014, which left more than a dozen officers in Chechnya's security forces dead, Kadyrov responded with a punitive campaign against the relatives of suspected militants.

Founded in 1613 or 1622 by Cossacks fleeing a tsarist punitive campaign, it was known as Yaitsky Gorodok until 1775, when its name was changed following the Pugachov Rebellion.

He protected the religious authorities who represented orthodoxy, and, through a series of punitive campaigns, he held in check the Christians of Asturias.

Punitive campaigns, started by the Spanish in the mid-19th century and terminated by U.S. troops in 1906, broke the power of the Moros.

The history of warfare offers thousands of examples of the strategic harm caused by the killing of civilians, from the punitive campaigns of ancient Rome to America's pummeling of North Vietnamese towns and villages.

The Ashanti death mask was stolen from the royal mausoleum in Kumasi, Ghana, during the punitive Ashanti campaign of 1873.

A "punitive and retributive campaign was launched" by the orchestra defendants, it said.