Sentence examples for punitive to from inspiring English sources

It was punishing to walk and punitive to play.

At first this movement may seem paternalist and maybe even punitive to some.

It is hardly punitive to make it easier for employers to hire immigrants.

Taxing spare bedrooms would be punitive to this socially, economically and environmentally sustainable working practice.

This was not just punitive to the corporation but damaging to the national interest at home and abroad.

In the past 25 years, the laws governing sex offenses have gone from punitive to draconian to senseless.

Ice is particularly punitive to black immigrants, who face the highest deportation and incarceration levels of non-citizens.

"This House will probably not be punitive to the oil companies because, look, they've brought us thousands of jobs," he said.

He said the suspension of drilling was punitive to companies with good safety records and not supported by fact or history.

Overheard at the Detroit Statler during the annual convention of the American Economics Association, one economist to another: "You know, I've changed from an extra-punitive to an intra-punitive personality type".

The New Yorker, January 22 , 1955P. 23 Overheard at the Detroit Statler during the annual convention of the American Economics Association, one economist to another: "You know, I've changed from an extra-punitive to an intra-punitive personality type".