Is it time to reawaken this industrial giant, to get government back within its means, and to lighten our punitive tax burden.
There is nothing punitive about them, they are a joke.
In addition to compensatory damages the courts began to award punitive damages.
For example, there is strong support for punitive legislation against oil companies because of high prices.
Moreover, conditions set upon release are intended to be preventative and not punitive in nature.
Yet the encouragement of faculty to expand their skills can't be punitive or negative.
No ruined credit, no debt collectors buying bad loans for pennies on the dollar, no punitive fines and penalties.
The new laws are even more demanding and punitive to wrongdoing than they were a few years ago.
punitive damages would also be available, but only if prosecutors could be shown to have lied in seeking to justify a detention.
Most controversially, he agreed to a punitive kind of welfare reform.
British Dictionary definitions for punitive
punitive
/ˈpjuːnɪtɪv/
adjective
1.
relating to, involving, or with the intention of inflicting punishment: a punitive expedition
Derived Forms
punitively, adverb punitiveness, noun
Word Origin
C17: from Medieval Latin pūnītīvus concerning punishment, from Latinpūnīre to punish
Word Origin and History for punitive
adj.
1620s, "inflicting or involving punishment," from French punitif (16c.) or directly from Medieval Latin punitivus, from Latin punitus, past participle of punire "to punish, correct, chastise" (see punish).