punitive action

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Rumours have swirled recently over potential punitive action by the EU.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2024

CVM reached a so-called "administrative agreement in supervision process," it said in a statement, enabling the watchdog to reduce or erase punitive action in exchange for effective cooperation in the ongoing investigations.

From Reuters • Sep. 30, 2023

The unexpected crisis stirred debate within the Reagan administration over whether Washington should take punitive action against the Soviet Union.

From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2023

But on Thursday, Adani Group said it was evaluating "remedial and punitive action" against Hindenburg Research in the US and India.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2023

The "�cho Belge," published in Amsterdam since the German occupation of Belgium, revealed that the punitive action by the German authorities was prompted by something other than an infringement of the regulations.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan