Sentence examples for exacted retribution from inspiring English sources
'exacted retribution' is an accurate and usable phrase in written English
It is usually used in the context of justice and punishment. For example: The criminal was forced to face the full force of the law, and the authorities exacted retribution for his crime.
Hewitt and the wound-up All Blacks exacted retribution over the course of the 80 minutes that followed, to the tune of a 25-8 victory.
IT WAS billed as a landmark deal that exacted retribution on banks which wrongly turned millions of Americans out of their homes.
Last year they lost 31-14 in Devon and, while they duly exacted retribution in the Massif Central, it was the Chiefs who unexpectedly progressed as pool winners.
While embed restrictions do permit photographs of dead soldiers to be published once family members have been notified, in practice, photographers say, the military has exacted retribution on the rare occasions that such images have appeared.
After 27 years in prison and decades of oppression at the hands of a white minority, Mandela could have exacted retribution when he became South Africa's first black president.
We, the taxpayers, pick up the tab for the military, whereas in commercial products, the market soon exacts retribution.
The Senate Democrats said the rules would muzzle them and further close deliberations to public scrutiny, and they accused the Republicans of exacting retribution for their heightened activism.
For hours, exacting retribution, Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships shelled the refugee camp outside Bethlehem that Israelis described as the source of the attack.
(Golden is something of an avenger, exacting retribution for too much wealth and status by dishing about every rich and famous father's kid's lackluster SAT scores).
By contrast, he said, the African National Congress, led by Mr. Mbeki, is "a great party of liberation" that instead of exacting retribution on whites like himself has shown tolerance since taking power.
The supposed mistreatment of family members as a method of exacting retribution for speech deemed unfavorable to the government has also been reported by in Syria, where expatriate activists say their family members back home have faced threats and physical abuse at the hands of the Syrian authorities for their antigovernment activities abroad.
