This brought retribution from Pacifica.
Businesses fear that taking a stand will bring retribution: bureaucratic harassment, arbitrary tax demands or missing out on public contracts.
He would be warned that cheating would bring retribution, as would attempts to produce weapons of mass destruction.
The Count strokes his pet mice and laughs "inwardly and silently" at the pious thought that criminal deeds bring retribution.
"It's a very calibrated move that is designed to make a point without bringing retribution from the I.D.F., which is the last thing Hezbollah wants right now".
Such programs infuriate the government and bring retribution, said Ziad al-Ajili, executive director of the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, a local watchdog organization.
In the end the corruption of our corporate system will bring retribution; even if political action never comes, investors will eventually lose faith and put their money elsewhere.
Several herbs, especially St.-John's-wort and yarrow, are potent against fairies, and hawthorn trees, foxglove, and groundsel are so dear to them that abuse of these plants may bring retribution.
Failure to pay the snakehead or attempts to escape from a smuggler's control, according to social service groups and academics who work with Chinese immigrants, can bring retribution against family members back in China.
Hezbollah, the powerful Shia armed force and political party that the United States classifies as a terrorist group, is based in Lebanon and receives support from the theocracy in Iran, so the filmmakers feared that word of the nature of their project might leak out and bring retribution.
