Sentence examples for punitive rules from inspiring English sources

The big European powers used the crisis to establish some new, more punitive rules for countries needing emergency aid.

Advocates had believed that reforms enacted by the king to head off protests last year had softened the country's punitive rules on lèse-majesté, or insults to the king.

"Without delay, we call on legislators to fix the patchy, inconsistent and often punitive rules that govern employee ownership the practice of giving staff options to acquire a slice of the company they're working for".

Somewhere between rigid, punitive rules and the pre-accountability era is a sweet spot of reason that this nation has failed to reach.

If the N.C.A.A. were really interested in protecting young people it would abolish the punitive rule that provides complete loss of eligibility if high school graduates -- unlike collegians -- make themselves available to be drafted.

They avoided a points penalty, as no such punitive rule existed at that time, but 19 players were released or made redundant.

Park's first novel looks at the punitive cultural rules that restricted women in 1960s South Korea.

Success Academy was also caught trying to drive out children and families who could not adapt to their punitive disciplinary rules and oppressive teaching style.

"It seems to be a punitive, unfair rule, all wrapped up in the idea that we can't have schools with older players," Orr said, noting that under the N.C.A.A.'s interpretation, Sanchez used two years of eligibility despite playing with Monroe and the Dominican national team in the same calendar year.

The National Federation of Independent Business, a powerful small-business trade group known to support Republicans, quickly pounced on the "punitive new rule" as another assault by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on independent employers.

Like the job itself, the club is a paradox: a place of complete licentiousness run on punitive and inflexible rules.