These punitive policies are self defeating.

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Had the United States and its allies pursued an approach centered on punitive sanctions, as with Cuba and Burma, the result would have been a less prosperous, less open, and potentially destabilizing China.

Recently inaugurated Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, together with Santos and other heads of state, question today s punitive, prohibitionist approach, owing to its enormous costs and meager results, and propose a different strategy legalization.

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

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

In the new council, the punitive approach and finger pointing that have politicized the matter and weakened the capacity of the United Nations to contribute and support States in the promotion and protection of human rights must not prevail.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

They are the production (or output or value added) approach, the income approach, or the expenditure approach.

Freedom of contract approach vs. exemption from liability approach

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.

Obama committed a fateful error when, for domestic political reasons, he decided to ask the US Congress to agree to a limited punitive military strike.

In the ensuing discussion, it was highlighted that conditionality imposed on the countries from the South were too punitive and often led to greater poverty.