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What does punitive mean?
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Jail is a very harsh punitive measure.
Movie subtitles
How soon you could put a company of your men in the field fully armed for joint-punitive action against the Comanches?
Joint-punitive action.
The punitive expedition U.S. Army has him completely surrounded.
There will be no punitive measures, gentlemen.
When I was just a boy, you used to tell me about your punitive forays.
We were on a punitive expedition because a tax collector had been murdered.
He sent three legions on a punitive expedition?
When Brian says he's canceling the tour, he doesn't mean it. in a pejorative or a punitive way, sweetheart.
Mr. Duke, I. I don't wish to underestimate your lifetime's work, but. the punitive system does not work.
Punitive detachment! They lit the fire.
Drugs? Punitive laws?
You've ever heard of punitive damages, Mr. US Marshal?
The judge ruled that keeping them in isolation is punitive.
I'm all right. I can handle the mood swings, the emotional issues, the catcalls, the punitive underwear, because, frankly, when I think of the alternative. I just have to laugh.
The scouting party was wiped out. by a Red punitive expedition.
Going on another punitive expedition?
Because you don't have to go on punitive expeditions.
Mr Duke, I don't wish to underestimate your life's work, but the punitive system does not work.
They're all SS! Punitive detachment!
Punitive action is being initiated now.
Punitive laws?
Punitive crazing away stuff inside of my camp!
It's no wonder they spend so much on their lawyers and PR machine to convince us we need tort reform, that we need to end punitive damages.
And therefore more punitive, which makes it more fun.
Obviously, we're seeking compensation for the families and punitive damages for willful negligence by these companies.
Punitive damages.
That's punitive. How else--?
Withholding partnership was punitive.
The restriction is de facto punitive.
Move for a verdict for the defendant with costs and punitive damage.
News and current affairs
Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and even George W. Bush and their supporters created the current system, in which tax rates and eligibility thresholds are not punitive disincentives to enterprise.
When some in the world called for sanctions and punitive action, South Korea pushed for dialogue.
Once conflict erupts, as Yugoslavia shows, most forms of punitive intervention have unintended adverse consequences.
Instead of punitive measures to enforce such standards, poor countries ought to be given incentives, such as tariff relief, to comply.
So Israel chose to mount punitive raids against Egyptian and Jordanian military outposts and villages that harbored marauders.
As the largest creditor, Germany could dictate the terms of assistance, which were punitive and pushed debtor countries towards insolvency.
Conditionality of this sort would be positive, local, and non-punitive; it would serve as a carrot, not a stick.
Indeed, genital mutilation makes a woman's experience of sex, that taboo of taboos, into a painful, humiliating, punitive procedure.
But the markets have not been reassured, because Germany dictated the Fund's terms and made them somewhat punitive.
At the beginning of the crisis, Greece's European creditors eschewed debt relief and charged punitive interest rates on bailout funds.
Economists around the world have condemned that target as punitive, because aiming for it will inevitably result in a deeper downturn.
Merkel, together with the European Commission and the European Central Bank, threatened to deprive Greeks of the use of their own currency, the euro, unless their government accepted punitive conditions.
Turkey is already enforcing a punitive economic embargo on Armenia, including closure of its border.
The program's other measures are a series of tax cuts for the middle class, entrepreneurs, and the wealthy, which, though expensive, constitute a similarly welcome break with France's tradition of punitive taxation.
The events of September 11, 2001, are also playing a crucial role in deciding the question of a punitive strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Wariness of another Middle East war has also underpinned Obama's unwillingness to go beyond a one-time punitive strike on Syria - with some in Congress opposed to even that.
Had the United States and its allies pursued an approach centered on punitive sanctions, as with Cuba and Burma, the result would have been a less prosperous, less open, and potentially destabilizing China.
But the steep fall in the value of Italian and Spanish banks' holdings of government debt, combined with mounting bad loans as a result of recessions exacerbated by punitive borrowing costs, is forcing the banks to rein in business lending further.
Protectionists in the United States and Europe, itching to slap huge punitive tariffs on Chinese goods, have been caught flat-footed.
Fearing sovereign defaults, bond markets would charge governments punitive interest rates on their borrowing.
True, Germany is putting on the books an important tax deal that will allow large financial institutions to sell-off their vast share holdings in the corporate sector without punitive capital gains taxes.
For several years, some members of the US Senate have maintained a punitive policy towards Indonesia by cutting off military assistance and curtailing Indonesian military training in the US.
These punitive policies are self-defeating.
And, by retaining Afghan bases to carry out covert operations, Predator missions, and other airstrikes, the US would be able to unleash punitive power to prevent a Taliban takeover.
Combating corruption through increased punitive action, while leaving intact a bloated and discretionary public sector, will only paralyze public officials, delay important decisions, and play into the hands of cynical demagogues and political fanatics.