punitive measure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpunitiveandmeasure
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punitive
adjective
uk/ˈpjuː.nɪ.tɪv/us/ˈpjuː.nə.t̬ɪv/
lawformalorspecialized
intended as ...
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measure
noun
uk/ˈmeʒ.ər/us/ˈmeʒ.ɚ/
a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with ...
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(Definition ofpunitiveandmeasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It would be wrong to see the re-testing procedure simply as a humiliation or as apunitivemeasure.
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Exclusion is not apunitivemeasure; it is in a very real sense preventive.
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We are always ready to consider tariff reductions, but there is no self-evident case for reductions simply as apunitivemeasure.
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It would also be a new development in using taxation policy as apunitivemeasurein commercial relationships.
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This is not—and we have sought to argue throughout that it is not—apunitivemeasure.
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Getting rid of housing benefit is an especiallypunitivemeasurefor students.
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Then, again, it has been alleged it was apunitivemeasure, and was rushed through.
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The rationing of rice is certainly not intended as apunitivemeasure.
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If we were merely out to secure apunitivemeasurethere would be no objection, but we are not out for that.
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It contains nopunitivemeasure, no condemnation and no punishment for their now sanitised "unlawful acts".
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In other words, taxation would be apunitivemeasureagainst marriage and family life.
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Water disconnection is apunitivemeasurewhich will only increase hardship, and it should not be used where consumer non-payment is a result of poverty.
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That is the only possible explanation for their introducing thispunitivemeasure.
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We are seeing anotherpunitivemeasureon people who have tried to cultivate the highlands and make them live.
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In the absence of any otherpunitivemeasureattached to non-compliance with a parenting order, that will happen.
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If this tax is imposed as apunitivemeasureon an industry which already has difficulty with its sales, it becomes still more punitive.
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I hope that thispunitivemeasurewill be defeated tonight.
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The assumption that a morepunitivemeasurewill produce success needs substantiation.
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The third element of the block grant system includes thispunitivemeasureof punishment of the big spenders.
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