Sentences with phrase «to be punitive»

It seems that the bulk of the damages were punitive in nature.

The only type of damages that was higher for new media cases was punitive damages.

It is our position that bankruptcy is meant to be a fresh start and should not be punitive.

Do not have a time out chair / area — that introduces a stigma which is punitive, and speaks to having negative expectations for the child's future behaviour.

It students are penalized for their early attempts at learning or our marks or grades are punitive in nature, they have the ability to crush confidence and hinder student learning.

The two greatest fears teachers expressed were that principals would not be properly trained to evaluate their staff and that the evaluations would be punitive rather than help teachers improve.

The taxation of these types of investments can be punitive if not dealt with early and by a tax professional that understands the tax regulations around them.

It stresses the word positive because most discipline management is punitive.

That was an honest, refreshing thought given that we often hear complaints that accountability's only purpose is punitive pressure on educators.

The fact that cash no longer keeps up with inflation is punitive — especially considering that stock and bond investors are enjoying good performance.

Feeding bans are punitive and tend to direct resources towards administrative tasks like enforcement and away from incentive - based programs that encourage spay / neuter.

Are punitive charges unlikely because the business may not come off as intentionally malicious?

It would also be punitive to all local agents in terms of extra work (which I can live with), and would lead to likely a higher rate of errors.

«In the real world, there's punitive damage when kids say or do the wrong thing.

These laws are punitive because they are harsher on consumers than the treatment afforded to other types of unsecured debt which I will refer to as unsecured consumer debt.

«An award of double costs is a punitive measure against a litigant for that party's failure, and all of the circumstances, to have accepted an offer to settle that should have been accepted.

She also said the reforms were punitive because if people fail to meet the work requirements, they'll be shut out of the program for a year, or three years for a second offense.

The Lexington Herald - Leader reported Wednesday that $ 62.5 million of the total a Knott County jury awarded were punitive damages against the mask maker, 3M Co..

Both saw that some human pain and torment are punitive, that some trouble is disciplinary was taken for granted, that in one way or another the cosmic process should not in the end be ethically unsatisfactory, that the whole experience of suffering remained mysterious, but that the climactic element in the New Testament's contribution to the understanding of suffering is to be found in its treatment of vicarious self - sacrifice.

Rheem suggests three ways a real estate company leader can get people to follow, and do so without being punitive and domineering.

Research shows that effective parents raise well - adjusted children who are more self - reliant, self - controlled, and positively curious than children raised by parents who are punitive, overly strict (authoritarian), or permissive.

«What they didn't vote for... is a punitive approach to child poverty or taking money away from our schools or only rewarding the rich.

«Discipline policies were punitive in nature; they were not focused on creating opportunities for students to learn from their behavior choices.

«That's because this was being promoted by the critics of the program as being punitive,» Grier said.

According to Shelly, if your puppy makes a potty mistake, rubbing his nose in it, yelling at him, hitting him, or making him go into his crate are all punitive consequences that can directly harm, if not completely break, the trust he has in you.

But what are punitive damages in Utah, and how difficult are they to receive?

[25] An award of double costs is a punitive measure against a litigant for that party's failure, in all of the circumstances, to have accepted an offer to settle that should have been accepted.

Time - outs do need to be punitive for many kids.

And worst of all, prison is punitive.

So is this punitive on the County's part or is a necessity?

Mandatory spay and neuter programs are punitive against the very people they often are designed to target: the underprivileged.

(Pragmatically, the most important attribute of God is his punitive justice.

«We shall argue that while God's withdrawal is punitive in nature, it always has redemption as its ultimate goal, which is why this principle expresses God's «redemptive withdrawal.

In November, the village rewrote its liquor license for the golf course after Park District officials complained an earlier version was punitive and hampered its ability to attract group outings.

A conscious approach or an unconditional parenting philosophy is a shift away from the traditional paradigm of parenting, which is a punitive model that uses power and consequences to change behaviors, toward building a more respectful, and authentic connection with children.

And one of the reasons is because time outs that are punitive humiliate your kids and make them feel bad about themselves.

Reform advocates contend a restrictive new program that privatizes the sending of care packages to prison inmates is punitive, but prison officials say it's intended to fight contraband.

Southern Kaduna Youth and Students Forum, SKYSFOM, has noted with dismay that the closure of institutions in the area by the Kaduna State government is punitive,...

The cap is punitive.

He said: «For the Amnesty International Ghana to indicate that such transfers are punitive and abuse of human rights is an indication that Amnesty International Ghana and its representatives do not clearly appreciate the core issues of human rights and how they get violated.»

However, most treatments for perpetrators are punitive and don't tend to address the childhood roots of violent behavior.

The word «cheat» «implies that healthy eating is punitive,» Heller points out.

She pushes the little girl out onto the ice, where Tonya is happy enough, but this mother won't stop pushing, and the terror of it is that every thought she has is a punitive whiplash of negative energy.

The picture is punitive, garish, and loutish, a flyblown corpse of an idea pocked by its constant explosions and battered by its dialogue and imperceptible performances.

«It's really about improving the school, it's not about being punitive,» Vos said.

The evaluation should never be punitive or stigmatizing in its intent; instead, the evaluation is intended to help students reach their full potential by explaining what is affecting them and suggesting strategies to help the student.

Also, the link is punitive to teachers who work in schools that serve high - poverty communities, and would provoke an exodus of minority and experienced teachers from urban districts.