Sentence examples for form of payback from inspiring English sources

Appearing to suggest the disclosures in the run-up to the election were a form of payback, he added: "If someone and their network behave like that, then there are consequences.

The best form of payback from America's expensive and authoritarian allies — Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan — would be help in reconciling Gaza Palestinians loyal to Hamas with West Bank Palestinians loyal to the more moderate Fatah of Mahmoud Abbas.

One of the less convincing theories about the spat was that the government had gone after Depardieu as a form of payback for his friendship with Sarkozy, whom he had supported during the election.

"There is a record here of going after people too hard, in too unfair a manner," Mr. Dodd said, but added, "I will not engage in the same form of payback politics".

The message, sent by O'Quinn, one of the stars of last year's N.C.A.A. tournament, to Boynton, the senior leader of the Gators, will be equal parts ribbing and reprisal — a good-natured jab at a friend that O'Quinn hopes will act as a small form of payback.

Europe's paymasters, led by France and Germany, are petitioning to freeze the union's budget -- a move seen by some as a form of payback to Poland, which expects to be a prime recipient of European aid after it joins the union in May.

It's a form of simple payback.

The Travis County district attorney, Rosemary Lehmberg, denied that the prosecution was a form of political payback.

Alice knows this sad case with a twisted mouth is not a hunter, but to her it doesn't matter -- tying him up and leaving him for dead is a justifiable form of cosmic payback.

Eventually, he asks Hannah about herself — as, he suggests, a form of ethical payback for the exploitative relationships with his fans: he never really listened to the other young women, but now he'll listen to her, see her as a person, in order to make up for it.

"Now that's my kind of payback.