Sentence examples for punitive regime from inspiring English sources

Keith Joseph's punitive regime of "cut and freeze" had just taken hold.

For the battlers: cuts to the pension, cuts to family support, and a punitive regime for young jobseekers.

The "highly punitive regime" resulted in people "begging, borrowing and stealing in order to meet daily needs".

Tensions within the coalition are believed to have delayed the introduction of a more "punitive" regime to tackle antisocial behaviour and replace Labour's discredited asbos.

From Liverpool to Moscow, Tokyo to Detroit, a punitive regime of prohibition has turned streets into battlefields, while drug use has remained embedded in the way we live.

He is a victim of the punitive regime detention regime that cares nothing for the human rights of asylum seekers and refugees," he said.

Mr Howard said he disagreed in other words, that it was right for the Prison Service to add to a prisoner's punishment through punitive regimes.

"And so the more people go to jail and the more often they are the subject of punitive regimes, the worst that problem is going to get".

"And so the more people go to jail and the more often they are the subject of punitive regimes, the worse that problem is going to get".

Still, he is in the odd position of claiming to be an instinctive tax-cutter, while running one of the most punitive regimes for high earners in Europe.The sums for the 2010-11 financial year haven't been done yet, but the Treasury thinks the new rate will raise between £1.5 billion and £2 billion a year.

The current UK government's punitive sanctions regime makes the idea of unconditional benefits attractive.