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Example sentences for: punitive

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Nursing home providers correctly perceive the government in an oversight role, enforcing regulations with punitive actions.
If you want to pick a moment when a punitive law against tobacco became almost inevitable, it might very well be that April day four years ago when seven tobacco executives went before a House committee and said that nicotine was not addictive.
Because today's punitive tax system means you pay disproportionately more the richer you are, simply moving to an equal system inevitably gives a break to the rich.
The 1996 platform goes on to say, "we have only compassion" for women who procure abortions and "our pro-life agenda does not include punitive action" against them.
Also that year, the president delighted plaintiffs' lawyers by vetoing a bill to limit punitive damages in product liability cases.