Sentence examples for punitive tendencies from inspiring English sources

But any meaningful reform must include the clemency process, by which we temper our most punitive tendencies.

I was prepared to be sympathetic to his failures — the volatility, the punitive tendencies, the absences — if I could hear from him that he'd been driven out of his mind by the suspicion that his real life was happening elsewhere.

American society, from our vantage point, given their use of capital punishment, can seem deeply punitive, and I suspect it is better for all of us if these punitive tendencies are restrained and balanced.

However, religiousness was inversely predictive of children's altruism and positively correlated with their punitive tendencies.

Previous studies suggest that the causes of workplace exclusion can be divided into two categories: punitive tendency and protective tendency (Robinson et al., 2013).

In fact, it is this tendency towards punitive action -- a desire to use government power to eliminate threats -- that sets authoritarians and Trump's supporters apart from the establishment GOP.

But public defenders say Dawson's tendency to give punitive sentences to offending juveniles verges on abuse.

An unrealistic fear of crime that is fed in part by politicians and the press, a tendency to emphasize punitive measures and old-fashioned racism are all at play here.

In recent years, a few high-profile rule violations in high-profile tournaments have drawn attention to the sport's tendency to be punitive to the point of absurdity.

Two hundred years on from the abolition of the slave trade, the idea of black people as primitive, threatening and in need of control is still with us, as is our tendency to resort to punitive measures when dealing with marginal and "deviant" individuals.

"Regressive and highly punitive school discipline policies have a tendency to funnel certain youth into a certain direction, and that's the basis of the school-to-prison pipeline".