The bad practices include an excessive reliance on search-and-destroy missions, the employment of punitive and repressive measures, and an insensitivity to civilian casualties.
He also threatened to levy punitive taxes on holdouts.
The study found that the use of punitive behavior correlates strongly with reduced individual payoff, and bestows no benefit on the group as a whole.
We are now examining whether being in a punitive environment day in and day out will have other negative impacts on children such as lying or other covert antisocial behaviors.
A punitive stance increases the stigma of being short of liquidity and encourages Banks to hoard cash, making the crisis worse.
A worry is that politicians' zeal to outdo each other's punitive line on bankers will go too far.
Pragmatism, the Dutch have long believed, is better than punitive prohibition — and they've got lots of data on their side.
Best idea: create medical courts run by experts to rule on malpractice claims, with no punitive damages.
"Costly punishment," the type of punitive behavior studied by Nowak and his colleagues, refers to situations where a punisher is willing to incur a cost in order to penalize someone else.
In the consumer insurance, when the underwriter intentionally fails to perform his obligation of honest payment, the insured and the beneficiary may request punitive damages.
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