Sentence examples for punitive of from inspiring English sources

Even the most unbending of ethicists, the most rigid of physicians and the most punitive of prosecutors must on some level understand such motives.

For example, Mr. Bush, a Republican, and Mr. Bradley, a Democrat, would be the most punitive of the four candidates on schoolwide performance.

If carried out on the scale Mr. Cameron and his ministers have proposed, the measure would probably be the most punitive of the sanctions that they have said would be considered in response to the worst civil disorder in a generation.

The most punitive of these, visible at the Nasir Bagh camp in Peshawar where Mr. Gul and his family spent 15 years, are the wrecking crews that descend on a home or shop as soon as the truck carrying a departing family pulls out.

Ethnic Libyan "collaborators", too, have been the subject of the punitive attention of the revolutionaries.

The moralistic, punitive tone of much of the fertility debate hasn't helped.

There was also symbolic punitive destruction of the homes of Hamas officials, including that of the movement's leader, Ismail Haniyeh.

Each of the seven received a punitive letter of reprimand and a partial forfeiture of pay for two months.

The end of the purely punitive phase of occupation ended in September, 1946.

From would-be poisoning of evil grandparents to punitive metamorphosis of bloodthirsty neighbours, Dahl's oeuvre has always excited controversy.

He was seeking compensatory damages from the county of up to $5 million and punitive damages of $1 million.