Sentence examples for punitive quality from inspiring English sources

Your impulse seems to have a punitive quality: punishing your niece, whom you'd normally gift, because your brother is not yet ready to reconcile with you.

The result was an overly protective solicitousness that took on a punitive quality - such as insisting that the husband restrict his activities -which the researchers thought was an indirect expression of the wife's anger.

Never forget that eight-year-old boy's jokes often have a punitive quality, designed to annoy and exasperate (eight-year-old boys possessing the fine understanding that many jokes and their tellings operate solely on the principle of how much they amuse the teller).

What I couldn't support was the punitive quality of that accountability as it is now practiced in our prison system.

Dovetailing with this private and admittedly limited anecdote, there is a punitive, vituperative quality in the published reviews that is always revealing of something larger in the culture, something beyond one aging writer's failure to produce fine enough sentences.

"NYPD ARE THE BROKEN WINDOWS" read one sign I passed as I marched with fellow young – and female – organizers, a nod to the discriminatory policing policy that erroneously suggests taking a harshly punitive stance on "quality of life" crimes will somehow reduce the rates of violent offenses.

But labour often had a punitive, if not pointless, quality, such as digging trenches in frozen ground in winter, according to Mr Barnes.

And well-done quality improvement is not punitive; it's educational.

We argue for balancing clear and efficient top-down monitoring and enforcement with other, less punitive accountability mechanisms including strong local quality support systems.

Diesel drivers may gain a partial reprieve from proposed punitive measures aimed at improving air quality, Theresa May has indicated.

We should be testing new, less punitive ways to measure and improve the quality of care".