punitive

The job had been to make a punitive expedition to a neighbouring island, and, incidentally, to recover the heads of some mutual friends of ours--a white-trader, his white wife and children, and his white clerk.

Passion for power: the earthquake which breaketh and upbreaketh all that is rotten and hollow; the rolling, rumbling, punitive demolisher of whited sepulchres; the flashing interrogative-sign beside premature answers.

He did not care to antagonize an English official, for the Queen's mighty arm wielded a punitive instrument which he could appreciate, and which he feared--England's far-reaching navy.

He had covered but a short distance from the forest when I beheld the first of his pursuers--a Sagoth, one of those grim and terrible gorilla-men who guard the mighty Mahars in their buried cities, faring forth from time to time upon slave-raiding or punitive expeditions against the human race of Pellucidar, of whom the dominant race of the inner world think as we think of the bison or the wild sheep of our own world.

He wondered if the women and children had remained in Mbonga's village after the punitive expedition from the French cruiser had massacred all the warriors in revenge for D'Arnot's supposed death.

Both were eligible for the militia, and both were drafted to serve in the punitive expedition that was despatched from California against the farmers of Missouri.

One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen.

It had this unique feature, that both sides lay open to punitive attack.

Phil Goldberg, a partner with Shook, Hardy & Bacon's Washington, D.C., office, testified on behalf of the American Tort Reform Association that Missouri's punitive damage laws have been "weakened and exploited over time." But attorney Ken Barnes of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys countered that punitives are limited to "the worst of cases" and are intended to make defendants "change their ways so they don't do it again."

at 496-500 (noting punitives awarded in 16 of 20 products liability, 14 of 17 premises liability cases).