Sentence examples for punitive enough from inspiring English sources
Other measures announced by the chancellor are simply not punitive enough.
To raise Lodge (for whom the Versailles Treaty wasn't punitive enough) above Wilson undervalues the importance of Wilson's vision, and of aspirational ideas generally in international affairs.
Is the N.F.L.'s policy that tests year-round and suspends a player for four games, or a quarter of the season, for a first offense punitive enough?
"But the fact that we seem to have one incendiary, misogynistic act a year seems to say that the university isn't being punitive enough against these large-scale activities".
Economists can debate whether such a wealth tax would reduce incentives to invest and innovate, or whether it would be punitive enough to make a real dent in inequality.
Security officials talk of "proactive deterrence", saying any future response would no longer be proportionate, but rather punitive enough to dissuade the Kim Jong-il regime in Pyongyang from making further attacks.
The response would have to be swift to avoid the traffic jam of international diplomacy, but also carefully calibrated — shallow enough to be punitive and embarrassing, but not an existential threat that would provoke nuclear retaliation.
The administration is walking a difficult line, trying to persuade Congress and Americans that limited military strikes will be enough to be punitive and effective yet will not pull the United States into another Middle East conflict.
"A six month sentence is not going to have a particularly punitive effect but is long enough to strip a man of the main factors that prevent future offending – home, job and relationship.
But Stack thinks there would be enough anticipation of punitive legislation warranted or not to drive energy stocks down.
The first time was non-punitive: There just wasn't enough space in my "home" jail, so I got shipped off to another one, where I was put in routine isolation for a few days before being cleared to mingle with the general population.
