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

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

The Thamud and ' Ad denied the consequential calamity .

The Thamud and ' Ad denied the consequential calamity .

These punitive policies are self defeating.

This is why we spend our time talking about things like gay marriage and not about genocide or nuclear proliferation or poverty or any other hugely consequential issue.

The size of a political party or nation can therefore have consequential effects on their ability to co ordinate and progress.

When corrected, the effect is substantially smaller, but nonetheless economically consequential.

The consequential reductions, for each organizational unit, would be as follows

Also provides for both protective and punitive measures, namely

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

These four risks are material and consequential, and each is growing in importance.

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

5.3 States shall prohibit forced eviction, demolition of houses and destruction of agricultural areas and the arbitrary confiscation or expropriation of land as a punitive measure or as a means or method of war.

Unfortunately, in today s most consequential militarized conflicts, that boundary is still nowhere in sight.

As any corporate executive will tell you, brands can be consequential drivers of behavior.

' Taking this custom into account, the Magistrates Court held that the word damages' should be interpreted as including punitive or exemplary damages as well as compensatory damages.

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

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

Beyond semantics lies the more consequential, but equally ambiguous, question of the international community s role and responsibility.

When we choose a career or a spouse in our private lives, or when a politician seizes an opportunity from a plethora of possibilities, the task at hand is always about making highly consequential decisions based on imperfect information.

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.

Indeed, today s good news should not obscure some consequential structural limitations that will require prolonged therapy and caution.

In the coming months, highly consequential policy decisions (or their absence) in systemically critical parts of the global economy will be revealed, with significant effects on growth rates, asset prices, and overall confidence.

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

She wondered whether a study had been conducted on the root causes of violence and sought information on rehabilitation or punitive programmes for the perpetrators and court decisions in that regard.

In fact, these top down decisions, while admittedly complex and certainly consequential, may be the least of Europe s challenges.

Consequential loss may also be compensated, if not excluded by parties' agreement, as it was not in this case.

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 reductions in staff recommended in the paragraphs above would lead to a consequential reduction of 1,984,600 under support services.

The reductions in staff recommended in the paragraphs above would lead to a consequential reduction of 57,700 under section 28F.

Perhaps due in part to this practice, subsidiary bodies rarely raised controversial and consequential issues when reporting to the Council.

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.

Official diplomacy begins where the battlefield ends. Unfortunately, in today s most consequential militarized conflicts, that boundary is still nowhere in sight.

Of all of the Republicans unreal beliefs, their full throated denial of human induced climate change was surely the most consequential.

The competent authorities, educational institutions, and other legal agents will ensure effective mechanisms in protection against discrimination and sexual harassment and will not take any disciplinary or other punitive measures against that person because of the fact that he or she complained about discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment, or testified about discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment.

Following that visit the culmination of an effort to bring about regime change in Syria any prospect of dialogue or negotiation with Assad (whose family, for better or worse, had controlled Syria for decades) was destroyed. Neither ambassador ever had a consequential meeting in Damascus again.

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.

Its success will be highly consequential not least for the political debate that will inform the outcome of Germany s elections in 2013.