Finally, nine men set out from town on a punitive mission, with guns and rope.
"They were definitely on a punitive mission here," Luca Cerbo, 38, said in front of the preschool.
Sadly the lessons of the Iraq war did not alert Nato leaders to the disastrous consequences of their punitive mission.
As chaplain in the U.S. Army, a disillusioned de Smet accompanied General William S. Harney's punitive mission to Fort Vancouver (in present-day Washington state) in 1858.
Led by Sir Robert Napier, the punitive mission was extravagant: 13,000 soldiers, 8,000 auxiliary workers, and thousands of followers in search of adventure or a story.
A co-production between Ireland and Scotland with an excellent cast from both sides of the Irish sea, Colm McCarthy's crepuscular horror dispatches James Nesbitt from a travellers' camp in Ireland on a punitive mission to Scotland.
Much the same point was also made by Diepreye Alameyeseigha, the governor of Bayelsa state, where the army led a punitive mission last month".With respect, Mr President," Mr Tinubu wrote, " if I had this kind of control over the police, the security situation in this country would not have degenerated so badly".
Contrary to how it is sometimes portrayed, the European Parliament is not out on some punitive mission -- and I would like to set the record straight on this.
Carthage never managed to recover after the Second Punic War and the Third Punic War that followed was in reality a simple punitive mission to raze the city of Carthage to the ground.
Unlike most healthcare settings where the physician is only responsible for the patient's welfare, doctors working within corrections often find themselves caught between the punitive aspect of the institutions' mission and the best interests of their patients.
