Sentence examples for punitive mood from inspiring English sources

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Like every other euro-zone leader, Merkel has to consider her voters, and Germans are in a punitive mood.

But Mr. Bloomberg is not in a punitive mood: If you don't like a museum exhibit, "don't go to see it," he said yesterday.

For it not only brings out America's harsh punitive mood but also poses worrying questions about the trial, in which a key witness told two different versions of events and important evidence was excluded.

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As Greengrass tells it, the British were in a punitive and unjust mood, and the Irish Protestant leader Ivan Cooper James Nesbittt), a member of Parliament who revered Martin Luther King, Jr., and the strategy of nonviolence, attempted to lead a peaceful protest.

Britain had been fighting a new country, born against its wishes, and had now lost.Something of that mood of punitive lesson-giving hangs over budget talks between Barack Obama and congressional Republicans.

But the national mood has grown less punitive, and when Giuliani made his remarks last year few allies emerged to support him.

Overly punitive parents increase the likelihood that a child will develop mood problems, some studies suggest.

The gist of this movie, which begins in a mood of calm reflection and grows angrier and more incredulous as it goes on, is unmistakably punitive.

The United States signed CAFTA a year ago, but the Bush administration is nervous about seeking the Senate's ratification, given the current mood on NAFTA.See articleBolivia's President Carlos Mesa announced that he would not sign a law imposing punitive new taxes on foreign gas companies.

The punitive element came last.

Punitive damages obviously do.

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