Synonym: punitory. Similar words: cognitive, initiative, munitions, sensitive, inquisitive, punish, unit, unity. Meaning: ['pjuːnətɪv] adj. inflicting punishment.
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91. Punitive damages potentially could be much more costly to cigarette companies than compensatory damages.
92. New moralists caricatured purity feminism as a repressive moral code based on ignorance and punitive condemnation.
93. However, he said that the punitive award to the estate of Nicole Brown Simpson might be more vulnerable.
94. The government, however, had only just begun their punitive measures against excessive liberalism.
95. After hearing further evidence, they will rule on punitive damages.
96. The Oregon Supreme Court upheld punitive damages award.
97. Currency strategists said such punitive rates were not sustainable.
98. The bill calls for the US Department of Commerce to start imposing -- even without approval by US President Barack Obama -- punitive tariffs on certain countries.
99. In order to satisfy the balance of groundwater in many years, a punitive factor is introduced in recursion equation.
100. U. S. Commerce Department announcement said the two forced enterprises involved in a dumping margin to 0, another for non-responding, was found to 231.40% punitive tax rate.
101. Pakistan's generals say their new tactical weapons will meet a threat from India's Cold Start doctrine, adopted in 2004, that calls for rapid, punitive, though conventional thrusts against Pakistan.
102. Apple filed a patent suit against Samsung, claiming the company's Galaxy smartphones and tablets infringe on several patents and asking for injunctions, actual damages and punitive damages.
103. In any case, due to the site direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive or exemplary damages, the website and its owners do not undertake any responsibility.
104. The home minister wrote to Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Thursday to ask the state government to take punitive action against organisations that try to become "self-styled arbiters of morality".
105. Customer and COOPER BANK agree that punitive or exemplary damages shall be unavailable in any arbitration between them.
106. Punitive damages system hasn't disaffirmed the rationality of traditional complementary damages system when it came into being and developed,[http://sentencedict.com/punitive.html] hotly makes an exception on the general damages system.
107. A limited ratio of punitive to compensatory damages would also be appropriate in the great majority of other tort cases.
108. EXAMPLE: Sometimes a persuasive collection letter can be more effective than a punitive one.
109. The social standard of modern civil law is the legal basis of punitive damages.
110. If the mood sometimes had its shadowed side, a touch of self-righteousness and meanness, a hint of the old nativist punitive zeal, it also showed great shine.
111. To introduce the punitive compensation system into Chinese public security area.
112. The system of discretional non-prosecution is not only beneficial to the punitive purposes and the efficiency of criminal procedure, but also accords with the needs of public welfare.
113. The plaintiff in the court case was awarded punitive damages.
114. Prior bonuses are also at risk from punitive tax proposals.
115. In common - law system, especially in American law, the punitive damages responsibility is an important institution.
116. In American law of punitive damages is a controversial problem.
117. The doubts burst into the open on August 9th when central banks were forced to inject liquidity into the overnight money markets because banks were charging punitive rates to lend to each other.
118. Yet there is need for some tort reform because there is too much litigation, compensatory damages are often too low, and punitive damages have sometimes been grossly excessive.
119. If the behavior of someone who commits a tort is outrageous, that person can be made to pay punitive damages (also called "exemplary damages").
120. Yuan Shao , the leader of an opposition force , led a punitive expedition to L & # 252 ; oyang, the capital.
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