The United States and others are substituting high rhetoric and symbolic punitive action for real action on Syria.

When some in the world called for sanctions and punitive action, South Korea pushed for dialogue.

These punitive policies are self defeating.

Resistance to sanctions from Russia, China, and France has persuaded US officials to allow more time for diplomacy before pushing for punitive action in the Security Council.

Referring to teenage pregnancy, she wanted to know what measures the Government was taking to prohibit punitive action against teenage mothers and their families at the village level.

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For, as China s growth accelerates, trade imbalances heighten US frustrations, and elections loom, lawmakers of both US political parties will threaten punitive action against China on a variety of subjects.

The punitive measures for prostitution related offences have increased in severity.

They should not be used in a vexatious or punitive manner.

Does she seriously believe that the euro and the EU would survive such punitive action? Instead of ideas for strengthening the solidarity and stability of the eurozone, absurd proposals are floated in Berlin.

Specific preventive and punitive measures are necessary to overcome trafficking and sexual exploitation.

At common law, damages are categorized into compensatory (or actual) damages, and punitive damages.

Legal and punitive measures cannot be totally successful unless the attitudes of society change.

A recent Congressional bill has called for imposing a 27.5 punitive tariff on Chinese imports.

Turkey is already enforcing a punitive economic embargo on Armenia, including closure of its border.

The reason for this is that it appears as a provision of a punitive character.

Again the Security Council failed to take action, and in particular, to invoke Chapter VII to take punitive measures against Ethiopia as provided for by article 4 of the Algiers Agreement and general principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

By Tuesday he had to reverse himself and provide an 85billion loan to AIG on punitive terms.

Those extensions were based not on objective but on military criteria and were both punitive and discriminatory.

When possible, legislation criminalizing abortion could be amended to remove punitive provisions imposed on women who undergo abortion.

February 17 Sino Vietnamese War, China launches a punitive attack on North Vietnam to punish it for invading Cambodia.

They stress that most current juvenile justice systems are more punitive rather than corrective, which is detrimental to rehabilitation.

The Committee deplored the punitive nature of the demolition of homes and called on Israel to cease the practice.

As the largest creditor, Germany could dictate the terms of assistance, which were punitive and pushed debtor countries towards insolvency.

Of course, exemplary and punitive damages in order to discourage conduct inimical to society do exist in the statute books.

The Ordinance provides for social and economic measures to prevent prostitution and punitive measures against customers, procurers and prostitution organizers.

Such a strategy should not be restricted to punitive measures, but, rather, also properly tackle the root causes of terrorism.

(e) To review the mandate and restructure the Commission on Minors' Affairs with a view to removing its punitive functions

Protectionists in the United States and Europe, itching to slap huge punitive tariffs on Chinese goods, have been caught flat footed.

Reformers also have the Obasanjo government s neo liberal economic policies, which they describe as punitive and intellectually bankrupt, in their sights.

In some cases, significant progress has been made in terms of employment creation despite the imposition of punitive and discriminatory policies.

A critical part of its role must be to consider with care the limits that should be placed on a punitive strike.

This will all translate, inevitably, into calls for more toughness toward North Korea less diplomacy and more sanctions, punitive measures, and isolation.

Further, we urge troop and police contributing countries to take punitive actions against those involved in acts of sexual exploitation and abuse.

The overwhelming emphasis had been on the punitive side of legislation in terms of appropriate and suitably high penalties for domestic violence.

The tariff proposal contained in the central piece of global warming legislation now before Congress would impose emission controls on domestic industries starting in 2012. It would also levy punitive tariffs on greenhouse gas intensive products imported from countries that lack comparable action to that of the US, starting in 2020.

The Government of Malaysia attached high priority to the fight against corruption and had adopted a two pronged strategy which provided for punitive action, including harsh penalties for persons convicted of crimes of corruption, and preventive measures designed to encourage the moral and ethical values of society to counter corrupt practices.

But most of it is about more punitive sentencing, And the more unequal societies are more likely also to retain the death penalty.

He was allegedly placed in a small punitive isolation cell measuring 1.5 m2 in unhygienic conditions, receiving a bottle of water a day.

Legislation on mercenaries should not just be punitive, but must also attempt to close the loopholes in regard to how mercenaries acquire arms.

Pertinent legislation should be amended to decriminalize abortion and abolish punitive measures in that regard, especially in the case of an unwanted pregnancy.

Sanctions should not be applied as a punitive measure or used as a means of ousting the legitimate authorities of a Member State.

An important decision of the Family Court had ordered a husband to pay his wife punitive damages for abuse, scorn, humiliation and enslavement.

Not so long ago, physical treatments such as lobotomy and ECT could be inflicted on patients without their consent, and sometimes for punitive purposes.

The type of justice South Africa practiced, what I call restorative justice is, unlike retribution, not basically concerned with punishment, it is not fundamentally punitive.