Like the white characters in "A Different Drummer," Mitchell experiences black retribution.
Years later, and on many streets, during different relationships with men I wanted to kiss, I experienced karmic retribution for that laugh.
The presidents of Reed College and Sarah Lawrence College, for example, both report experiencing forms of retribution for refusing to cooperate with the "ranking roulette".
Whereas only the (rational) Isfahbad-light part of the soul is immortal, Suhrawardi, nevertheless, notes the possibility for the imaginative faculty of souls that have not yet achieved perfection to perhaps survive, something that is required for the experiencing of divine retribution and for the perfecting of souls in the afterlife.
"What has been going on since 2005 is the shift of the center of power from the clergy to the Pasdaran," or the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, said a political analyst with years of experience in Iran who feared retribution if identified.
Doctors must bring their patient care experience to the table, without fear of retribution, and actively participate in informing decisions at all levels that affect their practice, from hospital policies to tort reform to national healthcare policy.
Russians with Georgian surnames are now experiencing the some of the sort of retribution from officialdom that their Chechen counterparts have suffered for the past ten years.Ms Politkovskaya suffered death threats aplenty.
Ms. Bair's point was not about any kind of retribution but rather that the long experience of the F.D.I.C. indicated that the best time to clean up any financial sector mess was at the moment and point of intervention.
Yet gender equality still seems to stop at the bedroom door, and even here, women who recounted their experiences declined to be identified, fearful still of retribution.
South Africa's homegrown Truth and Reconciliation Commission provided imperfect truth and incomplete reconciliation, but it relieved pressures for retribution and gave South Africans an important experience of self-judgment.
