Sentence examples for deserved payback from inspiring English sources

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The blame-America set here promptly suggested we deserved payback for opposing the treaty to allow dictators to haul Americans into a global court.

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Others said they would go out of their way to choose the more expensive options, viewing such decisions as acts of defiance and a kind of well-deserved "payback" after years of paying insurance premiums.

Explaining the "leftist" mindset -- according to him, anyway -- the conservative radio host told a caller that Obama believes Americans might deserve Ebola as payback for slavery.

For present purposes, the important point is that this notion of payback is better understood as a theory that purports to explain why punishment is deserved, rather than as providing the meaning of retributive justice.

It is precisely the payback that companies deserve for embellishing their earnings.

"If politics gets involved, we aren't going to be preserving the buildings that deserve to be preserved, but the buildings of political friends for paybacks".

Thomas deserves to come back, and those boisterous fans who chanted "Fire Isiah!" are getting the payback they deserve.

These same people also believe that karmic payback can be a puppy's mother (or words to that effect), and that he deserves the same treatment when he constructs a puzzle.

To claim it was payback for a perceived lack of support from Webber ("After all that has happened in the past few years, Mark didn't deserve to win") was the icing on a huge shit-cake.

But the voluntary party has been shorn of any payback or reward: even lowly MBEs are no longer dished out to the deserving, for fear of some "leafleting for honours" scandal.

Expect payback.

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