How to Use "punitive" with Example Sentences

1. Still , he reckoned , less punitive approaches to drug users are gaining acceptance .

2. She is applying a clear , but not overly punitive consequence for the behavior and providing an opportunity for the child to try again tomorrow and succeed .

3. This is required to limit the problem of " moral hazard " but should not amount to an unduly punitive sanction as at the moment .

4. And my main grouse against the us " republican right " is that it gives competitive capitalism a bad name by associating it with religious intolerance , a chauvinistic foreign policy and a punitive tendency .