Sentence examples for too punitive from inspiring English sources

They argue that it encourages racial profiling, is too punitive and harms families.

A war of words ensued: Greeks protested that the terms of the bailout were too punitive.

This is an example of where the law can be too punitive".

That's not too punitive a cap, especially since you are allowed to start eight pitchers at any given time.

Whenever the unspoken rules became too punitive, and the balance was broken, it needed to be rebuilt".

Mr. Dunne called the governor's proposal today "a good, workable beginning," though he said it was still too punitive.

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

But surely at the top of any prohibited list of questions should be those about an applicant's stance on the war, an issue that is already generating far too many punitive urges toward those who think the "wrong" way.

The document also deemed currently-enacted No Child Left Behind legislation "too rigid, punitive, and prescriptive".

It is interesting to note that there seems little of what we would call prejudice among animal societies toward nonstandard behavior, and yet there was no discussion of this judgmental and too-often-punitive activity that emerges in nominally more advanced human animals.

In the past, the idea of selling out could be too unyielding and punitive.