"We need to get the punitive measures taken off the table."

The problem is that punitive measures to force healthy behavior do not usually work.

Rather, we seem to reserve such punitive measures for our own industry.

Such an action takes the colour of punitive measure which should be denied under law.

It's much easier to take punitive measures against "foreign" companies.

"That's where we ought to direct our efforts instead of looking at more punitive measures."

Pressure was building for punitive measures against Swiss economic interests.

This was a punitive measure directed against these countries for their support of Israel during that war.

Punitive measures are to be limited to those directly responsible for the conflict.

We focus more on education or changing behavior than punitive measures."

These punitive measures were later extended to most of the other colonies as well.

Pyongyang has said it would consider any punitive measure as an act of war.

After their victory, the city authorities took drastic punitive measures.

The majority concludes that the Act is a regulatory rather than a punitive measure.

And she sought to move away from punitive measures toward voluntary compliance.

This was, however, for salary-cap reasons and not as a punitive measure.

The law contains no punitive measure that could compel a hospital to provide the information.

Administrators, teachers and students at Chelsea said the school's program also made it clear that punitive measures were needed.

One more complaint lodged against him, though, and we take punitive measures he won't like at all.

It could be some kind of punitive measure by an insane religious sect.

The government, however, had only just begun their punitive measures against excessive liberalism.

Shula says now that it was not necessarily a punitive measure.

Sometimes there was trouble and the whole block would be locked in as a preventive or punitive measure.

It says that for some young people, truancy becomes a way of life, and punitive measures would make no difference.

This must also include a properly functioning control system with strict punitive measures.