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punitive
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    The Commander, instead, smells of mothballs, or is this odor some punitive form of aftershave?†  (source)
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    Or I shall have to take some severe punitive measures.†  (source)
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    If the death penalty is ever to be imposed for desertion, it should be imposed in this case, not as a punitive measure nor as retribution, but to maintain that discipline upon which alone an army can succeed against the enemy.†  (source)
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    She got cavity-searched every day for a month once, right after she had spoken up at a meeting and suggested that her supervisor might be on the wrong track with a major programming project It was punitive and vicious, she knew it was, but she always wanted to give something back to her country, and whenever you work for the Feds you just accept the fact that there's going to be some politicking.†  (source)
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    She never laid a hand on me punitively—she was anti-spanking in a way must have come from her own bad experiences—but when I asked her what it felt like to be punched in the head, she showed me.†  (source)
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    He never declared his war aims, and I do not to this day know whether they were purely punitive—whether he had really at the back of his mind some geopolitical idea of getting me out of the country, as my Aunt Philippa had been driven to Bordighera and cousin Melchior to Darwin, or whether, as seems most likely, he fought for the sheer love of a battle in which indeed he shone.†  (source)
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    I've read about how Jews and non-Aryans were harassed and taxed punitively and had to give up everything to be allowed to leave the country.†  (source)
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    It's an unrelenting, punitive, miserable existence.†  (source)
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    No action could be taken when punitive squadrons joined the people they had been sent to punish.†  (source)
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    Moving was a lesson in punitive anatomy.†  (source)
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    It was a more effective, and more demoralizing, treatment than any punitive action could have been.†  (source)
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    He had been trained in coded field communications to take advantage of his obvious intelligence, and to avoid the likely consequences of his physical immaturity if he were an infantry regular, which would be certain injury and possible death at the punitive hands of superiors, long before an enemy confronted him.†  (source)
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    EST isn't always used for punitive measures, as our nurse uses it, and it isn't pure sadism on the staff's part, either.†  (source)
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