Sentence examples for achieve retribution from inspiring English sources

He cowered like a holy fool on his uppers and dreamed himself into the oblivion from which, like a venerably restored chieftain in snakeskin boots and silver-sleek hair, he magnificently awoke to achieve retribution.

How many more sharks must be massacred until we achieve retribution?

It took considerable courage for some of his witnesses to testify, for ordinary people to resist the threat of death and come forward, for officials to do their jobs, for society itself to achieve not retribution but justice.

Even if a norm is a means to achieve a social end, such as cooperation, retribution, or fairness, usually it is not the sole means.

In an 82-page decision, Judge Holland defended the amount as necessary to achieve the purposes of punitive damages, which he said were retribution and deterrence.

Because deterrence was not formally described until the 18th century and rehabilitation did not achieve a following until the 19th, restoration was initially replaced by retribution and incapacitation (which was essentially achieved through execution or maiming owing to the lack of detention facilities).

When the punishment fits the crime, retribution is achieved, and anger is sated; it softens.

Achieve, achieve, achieve.

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And yet, as many relatives of murder victims have discovered, real retribution can never be achieved.

In the following decade, Harold Cruse's widely read manifesto "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual" sought retribution for the injustices done to Negro artists".The Gershwin-type musicians achieved status and recognition in the 1920s for music that they literally stole outright from Harlem nightclubs," Cruse wrote.