Sentence examples for punitive with from inspiring English sources

Inspectors found responses to women whose behaviour caused concern were "excessively punitive", with too little attempt to tackle the underlying causes of their behaviour.

Working with tenants, the NYCHA came up with an enforcement policy that gets increasingly punitive with each violation: from an informal chat with management, to documented warnings, to beginning eviction proceedings. .

Making matters worse, for those electing not to be subjected to a radiation-imbued virtual strip search by government agents, the TSA made the alternative -- an enhanced pat-down -- downright punitive, with TSA agents going so far as to touch passengers' genitals and breasts and put their hands down travelers' pants.

PMDC and PNC must be given a mandate to deal with violating practitioners in a punitive manner, with the use of sanctions such as suspension or the complete revoking of licences.

It is better than a pure consequentialism, because it constrains punitive interventions with individual liberty to the bare minimum consistent with achieving the purpose of punishment and it is consistent with the rights of offenders.

Writers with affiliations--even freelance writers who have punitive contracts with magazines to provide a certain number of articles per year--are not my concern here.

Finally, nine men set out from town on a punitive mission, with guns and rope.

Mrs. Palank said she had pursued the punitive damages with the understanding that CSX, not Amtrak, would pay it.

Successive home secretaries strove to outdo one another in populist punitive measures, with Howard followed by Labour's draconian Jack Straw, David Blunkett and John Reid.

The jury awarded TVT $24 million in compensatory damages and $108 million in punitive damages, with Mr. Cohen liable for about $56 million.

Denny ran into difficulty with Tom Petty who was trying to extricate himself from what he considered to be a punitive deal with Shelter.