Sentence examples for a form of retribution from inspiring English sources

Critics accuse the government itself of orchestrating the farm invasions as a form of retribution for voters' rejection of a new draft constitution last month.

But Mr Mogae, who was in London when the sentence was carried out, has said that he believes in hanging as a form of retribution for murder.

Cunha initiated the impeachment process against Rousseff last December as a form of retribution after her Workers party refused to back him in the ethics committee.

He said the act had been a form of retribution for the joint authorship by the US and Israel of the Stuxnet worm, which was allegedly designed by government-sponsored teams to target Iran's nuclear reprocessing facilities.

Here in Sao Paulo, in climatic conditions perfect for England, he rose to inflict a punishment he later ludicrously claimed was a form of retribution for supposedly harsh criticism of his behaviour at Liverpool.

It is possible that he intended these acts as a form of retribution for the Earl of Ross' savage attack on Skye.

The German government should establish a historical commission, like the one that investigated the conduct of the foreign office under National Socialism, to determine why jurists interpreted the law so narrowly that thousands of Grönings escaped any form of retribution, however belated and inadequate.

The Human Rights Watch assessment was consistent with the accounts of residents, who said soldiers had set the fires as a form of sweeping retribution for the death of one of their own.

Giving evidence, Roache said he believed in reincarnation and an "absolute deity, a total God", but never meant to suggest that the abuse was a form of divine retribution.

Some sort of sick cosmic joke, a form of divine retribution?

And has the US government resorted to puns as a form of symbolic retribution following the Paris attacks?