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How to use punitive in a sentence

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There might be punitive damages as well as reimbursement of litigation costs and legal fees.
The players were affordable and keen to escape their homeland's more punitive tax rates for higher earnings.
The Law Commission emphasised that an award of punitive damages should be seen as a remedy of last resort.
The civil service post was resigned and the family removed to the Isle of Man to avoid the punitive tax system of the time.
If the new bill is passed then punitive charges will be made for such applications.
Zechariah, however, is given a punitive sign, while the annunciation to Mary concludes with her pledge of willing submission.
Nor will we gain any great wisdom through the more punitive, ascetic methods.
The punitive measures were designed to give customers confidence that association members were certain to be upstanding businessmen.
The ensuing national uproar led to punitive taxes on repatriated assets that took the fun out of that maneuver.
Being disruptive, refusing to obey orders, and engaging in acts of self-mutilation and attempted suicide can all result in punitive action.
The bailout bill limits the amount of damages the victims can collect, by forbidding any award of punitive damages against the airlines.
These policies are, in effect, a punitive tax on a superior, and badly needed, technology.
Strict limits on the ratio of punitive to compensatory damages would elevate the importance of accurate measurement of compensatory harm.
Self-inflicted pain might enhance the masochist's sense of control over others by manipulating their sympathy or provoking a punitive response.
It charged the punitive rate of interest on the arrears as well as the repayments, causing the debt to balloon.
Although religious worship as such was not outlawed, punitive taxes were imposed on the churches and many were forced to close.
Firstly, there is the punitive tax and fees that any purchase in Belgium imposes on the buyer.
Thousands of Hindu temples and shrines were torn down and a punitive tax on Hindu subjects was re-imposed.
Modern smokers are clearly able to ignore punitive taxes and health warnings on packaging.
Rather than urge selective and punitive tax increases, Ms. Devine should be urging no taxes at all.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The disbandment of mutinous regiments was one of the punitive measures carried out by the Supreme Administration or Command.
In time we have come to realize that our punitive methods not only do not tend to do away with recidivism, but enhance it.
But their confinement was, as doubtless it was intended to be, memorably punitive.
It is apt to be doubly so when, as sometimes occurs, it is punitive in intent.
Of punitive police, political or moral, I have a wholesome horror.
The whole garrison is under orders for a punitive expedition.
House of Representatives on July 31 passed a bill that would lift the cap on compensatory and punitive damages that women may be awarded in wage discrimination cases.
Her account of the changes in mentalite and practices, culminating in the New Poor Law of 1834 with its notably punitive Poor Law Infirmaries, carries real conviction.
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