11.   Clinton directed Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to travel to Europe and the Persian Gulf to forge cooperation for potential punitive military action against Iraq.

12.   Company regulations prohibited open-toed sandals but took no punitive actions against casual harassment, sleeping on the job, or flagrant abuse of resources.

13.   Clinton also used his address to pointedly warn President Saddam Hussein that Iraq would face punitive military action unless he immediately allows resumption of unfettered U.N. weapons inspections.

14.   Despite publicized suspicions in the US intelligence community that Iran was involved in the Khobar bombing, no certain conclusions were drawn and no punitive actions were ever taken.

15.   Diane Mathis, a Health Department spokeswoman, said that punitive action against Obasaju was unlikely because the state does not license or certify embryologists.

16.   Forbes insisted in both cases that a tough engagement was needed, setting rules that the Clinton administration had never made clear, and that punitive action could wait.

17.   For the United States, a failure by Sudan to act within that period would provide a pretext for seeking sanctions or other punitive action.

18.   France and the United States were believed to favor a more vigorous response, while Russia reportedly opposed taking punitive action against the Serbs.

19.   Hawk engagement aims to thwart these goals by dealing with Pyongyang in the near term but also laying the groundwork for punitive actions against it later on.

20.   He said he does not expect the church to take punitive action against bishops who ordain homosexuals.