Sentence examples for punitive suggestions from inspiring English sources

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(Men in soccer club) Sometimes lively group debate led to impractical or punitive suggestions (more likely to increase than reduce stigma), such as jailing people for extramarital sex, or beating youth to enforce sexual abstinence.

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Such framings are troubling for their punitive tone and suggestion that not having children is the 'ultimate price' that women might pay for anything.

But these authorities say West Germany, Italy and several other Western European countries remain economically entangled with Libya and averse to suggestions of punitive measures for terrorist activity, most recently the attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports.

The suggestion that punitive tax rates on the wealthy be used to subsidize the wages of others is a formula for mediocrity, not greatness.

Should negotiations fail, she wrote, "the legislative and executive branches will move with speed and unity, backed by America's allies, to institute even tougher sanctions", a suggestion that punitive measures on Iran will remain an option should Clinton be elected president.

Both corrections and the government dismiss suggestions the system is overly punitive, but advocates such as Ruth Barson, a lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre, disagree.

But it's significant that these movies often close with a suggestion of regret for their punitive plotting, giving the protagonists happy or happy-ish endings.

Judge Jack B. Weinstein of Federal District Court told the parties to come to court Monday prepared to consider a suggestion by plaintiffs' lawyers to spin off claims for punitive damages against cigarette makers into a nationwide class-action suit, with separate trials for claims for compensatory damages.

So Tessa Jowell's suggestion that wealthy property owners who leave places empty should be subject to punitive tax penalties is worth taking up.

Kim's suggestion was brushed aside by American officials, but the statement served as a reminder that punitive measures, including UN and US sanctions, on North Korea have centered on its nuclear program, and not its dismal and alarming human rights record.

That is the device that organizes and rationalizes the critics' various suggestions that breaching promisors should disgorge any gains produced by their breaches to their promisees in restitution or pay punitive damages on account of the betrayals that their breaches involve.

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