Punitive damages are damages that aren't just trying to make somebody whole, but they're extra damages that are put on somebody because they did something bad and you're trying to discourage other people from doing these bad things and maybe even just punish the person or the corporation because you think they deserve it.
Intractably bad socio-economic circumstances can and will lead good people to do bad things.
There are policies all over Europe that protect people from over-indebtedness, that regulate credit cards and make it very difficult for people with bad credit to get things like this that allows them to go over their heads and become over-indebted.
As a consequence, the meaning of the negative experience is constrained, and people understand that when bad things happen, it's not just them, they are not alone, and that it's something that passes.
"I think they have an opportunity to say to the people of this state, look, we can't stop people from doing bad and venal and stupid things, disgusting things, but when confronted with the knowledge, we can act firmly and effectively, " he said.
And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.
"Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things, " Rumsfeld said.
People are so used to things being bad, and they celebrate miniscule improvement in jobs or economic growth, that in earlier years would have been dismissed as failures.
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We can intervene as a medical crisis unfolds and we can keep the population safer from bad people doing bad things.
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There are good and bad things about Europe, but the British people will not want to see the natural environment further threatened by a weakening of environmental legislation.
Themed "Life Comes at You Fast, " it featured celebrities such as Kevin Federline and Fabio showing the bad things that can happen to people when they aren't prepared.
They are urging people to head for the surgery door before things get too bad, and are hoping that the new set of guidelines will help GPs know what to do when they get there.
So people are fairly used to the press saying good things about us and bad things about us.
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My view is that cooperators who have done bad things do not become good people simply because they acknowledge their wrongdoing and testify against others.
"The buzz that keeps coming about is that Steubenville is a bad place, things are being covered up, more people should be arrested and I feel that's all unjustly so, " said Jerry Barilla, a longtime store owner.
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They need the self-confidence and recklessness of youth, along with the naive belief that bad things only happen to other people.
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