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Example sentences for: punitive

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The Reagan administration was, I think, gratuitously punitive toward some of the poorest and most desperate welfare recipients and put much too much of the burden of its supposed deficit reduction on the backs of those least able to afford it (and on programs so meagerly funded that their contribution to deficit reduction was meaningless in any case).
Those found to intentionally discriminate against women must pay punitive damages, back pay, and/or wage increases.
Nursing home providers correctly perceive the government in an oversight role, enforcing regulations with punitive actions.
The paper notes that France may balk at punitive measures directed against Serbia.
The publicity of private hair is a long story; it figures in the willingly shaven heads of ancient priests and modern skinheads, in the punitive shearing of male convicts and female French collaborators, in huge powdered wigs and elaborately extended curls or braids.