Sentence examples for Economic retribution from inspiring English sources

Writing at the time of the first bailout, Varoufakis described it as punitive — a rerun of the Versailles Treaty, this time with Germany as the enactor, rather than the victim, of economic retribution.

Writing at the time of the first bailout, Varoufakis described it as punitive a rerun of the Versailles Treaty, this time with Germany as the enactor, rather than the victim, of economic retribution.

And, when he tried to persuade other countries to accept them, foreign officials wanted to know why they should take people whom the U.S. didn't want — particularly when China was threatening economic retribution.

2. Cut their losses and liquidate the projects completely, leaving the country laden with half-finished white elephants that they must pay back the loans on regardless and face political and economic retribution from China.

The Iranian people will paralyze this regime faster and more effectively than any foreign military or economic retribution ever could.

Reading it, I was struck by just how much the dynamics of our present culture increasingly represent those of a totalitarian society, where free speech is effectively squelched by economic retribution, public humiliation, disgrace and, worst of all, physical harm.

It is an unsettling reminder that even (or especially) at a time of unending national economic woes, retribution and especially capital punishment remain esssential to our national political culture (for why, see Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear).

The high-profile arrest has prompted fears that Canada could face costly economic and political retribution from China.

After all, truly free speech is free from political retribution, economic sanction, and physical threat.

Osborne hailed his deal as the moment to move beyond retribution to economic recovery.

In a 1995 Playboy interview, he related a sketchy theory that various presidential assassinations and assassination attempts have been acts of retribution for economic reforms that challenged the powers-that-be.