Overall the security situation in Mazar remains somewhat unstable. As of this morning, we heard reports that along with occasional looting there is also 'punitive action' that is being carried out. We have also heard that fighting is continuing in and around the city.
Quotes about punitive (16 Quotes)
It's not like throwing a bone to the far right, it's like throwing a carcass, ... He's voted for school vouchers, against affirmative action, against abortion. He has voted for very punitive juvenile justice legislation. He has voted for a constitutional amendment (banning) flag desecration. He is the architect of efforts to give federal funding to religiously controlled institutions -- he doesn't seem to have much regard for separation of church and state.
There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.
It's not just the cost involved, ... But the potential impact to men and women in uniform is impossible to calculate .... There should be some type of punitive action taken.
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
Time and again, whenever we have posed any kind of challenge, Visa enacted punitive new rules tailored to interfere with our business plans and our ability to compete.
I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.
If the Security Council takes any punitive action, like economic sanctions, North Korea has said this is tantamount to going to war.
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
Within 24 hours of being notified of the incident, we took swift and punitive action and believe this reinforces our zero tolerance for these types of episodes.
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.
It's the Grinch who stole Christmas, ... In a petty move, the Bush administration has banned minor activities such as Christmas tree harvesting and mushroom picking to express their opposition to a judge's ruling. The action is particularly ill-timed considering the short harvest season for mushrooms and Christmas trees. Precedent clearly shows that these kind of activities are not subject to administrative appeals. The Forest Service should rescind this punitive order and allow people who rely on these activities for their livelihood to pay the bills and put food on the table.
Action on any of the punitive legislative proposals before Congress now would be counterproductive to our efforts at this time,