"We need to get the punitive measures taken off the table."

The problem is that punitive measures to force healthy behavior do not usually work.

Rather, we seem to reserve such punitive measures for our own industry.

It's much easier to take punitive measures against "foreign" companies.

"That's where we ought to direct our efforts instead of looking at more punitive measures."

Pressure was building for punitive measures against Swiss economic interests.

Punitive measures are to be limited to those directly responsible for the conflict.

We focus more on education or changing behavior than punitive measures."

These punitive measures were later extended to most of the other colonies as well.

After their victory, the city authorities took drastic punitive measures.

And she sought to move away from punitive measures toward voluntary compliance.

Administrators, teachers and students at Chelsea said the school's program also made it clear that punitive measures were needed.

One more complaint lodged against him, though, and we take punitive measures he won't like at all.

The government, however, had only just begun their punitive measures against excessive liberalism.

It says that for some young people, truancy becomes a way of life, and punitive measures would make no difference.

This must also include a properly functioning control system with strict punitive measures.

We have to have preventive and punitive measures as well.

Restorative justice may be seen as an overall alternative to punitive measures.

An admonition is the least severe commission action and includes no punitive measures.

It is hard to see what purpose is now served by these punitive measures.

That makes it difficult for it to cooperate with punitive measures.

The draft, which is in a very early stage, does not include a recommendation of punitive measures like sanctions, the officials said.

Punitive measures were also taken, including arrest or house arrest.

The court must implement punitive measures against the thief.

"The church can be most effective in the public debate on abortion through moral persuasion, not punitive measures," he said.