Sentence examples for punitive targeted from inspiring English sources

Speakers acknowledged the need for checks on the benefits system to deter abuse, but said the sanctions system was punitive, targeted at the most marginalised and vulnerable, and created a climate of fear and anxiety.

It is also one of the most bizarrely punitive, targeting students, high-school graduates, G.E.D. holders, and veterans who came to the United States under the age of sixteen.

There almost certainly are people, above her and beyond the IRS, who initiated or approved the IRS's punitive targeting of conservative groups and who hope Lerner's history of aggressive partisanship will cause investigators to conclude that she is as high as responsibility for the targeting rises.

By the current data, we cannot assign precise punitive targets; however, specific bioinformatics approaches have been developed to predict miRNAs present in the genome of different organisms.

"It is wrong for members of the United States Congress and the president to propose to use the taxing authority of the government in a manner that is arbitrary, punitive and targeted on a single group of people," said Senator Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, and the party's senior member of the budget committee.

Punitive policies targeting behavioral problems have been shown to backfire, he adds, putting kids even further behind their peers.

The disclosure of the 2014 report – which suggests a series of potential punitive measures targeting extremist settlers and settlement products – comes days after Israeli elections which saw Netanyahu emerge as the decisive victor.

The letter, written earlier this week – and leaked to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Thursday, comes amid mounting pressure from ministers in a number of European countries to advance punitive policies targeting Israel's settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

The Obama administration is readying new punitive measures targeting the Central Bank of Iran, while leaders of the European Union took a step this week toward approving strict curbs on imports of Iranian petroleum in hopes of pressuring the nation to abandon what they say is a drive to develop nuclear weapons.

Instead, they concurred on the goal of staving off punitive measures targeting illegal migrants.

Above all, our punitive state targets the poor more than the wealthy and Blacks and Latinos more than white people.