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  • r  in a punishing manner

  • Wisely or foolishly, punitively or conciliatorily, arrogantly or sensitively? Above all, regulations must be considered within the broader context of the whole society; hidden .
  • Alcoholism is a socially dangerous condition that must be treated punitively, but who has the right to take away from a man who is not an alcoholic his right to a mug of beer after .
  • Thanks to a politically potent temperance movement that gathered strength in the early 1900s and still wields considerable influence today, Sweden has used punitively high taxes .
News & Articles

  • Judge: Obama sex assault comments 'unlawful command influence'
    Two defendants in military sexual assault cases cannot be punitively discharged, if found guilty, because of “unlawful command influence” derived from comments made by President Barack Obama, a judge ruled in a Hawaii military court this week, setting the stage for defense attorneys to use the same arguments in sexual assault cases throughout the military.
    June 14, 2013 - Stars and Stripes
  • Obama comments on sex assault penalties ruled 'unlawful command influence'
    Two defendants in military sexual assault cases cannot be punitively discharged, if found guilty, because of “unlawful command influence” derived from comments made by President Barack Obama, a judge ruled in a Hawaii military court this week, setting the stage for defense attorneys to use the same arguments in sexual assault cases throughout the military.
    June 14, 2013 - Stars and Stripes
Quotes

  • Thomas V Mike Miller in AZ Central.com
    I don't think that the votes are there to pass a bill in terms of changing the status of immigrants in the state,Miller said. "That means not punitively and not to give them any form of tax advantages either."
  • Abbie Cornett in KETV.com
    To ask themselves if they're reacting in anger because we did this to them when we passed 126. We cannot pass laws punitively. We are not the enforcement arm of government,Cornett said.

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