Sentence examples for form of retributive from inspiring English sources

It was a form of retributive justice.

Some argue that the kind of retributive justice offered by the ICC is inappropriate in Africa.

This kind of retributive crime, by the powerful against the weak, is reported in many Indian states.

Only in this way can one feel confident that retributive intuitions are a form of insight into retributive justice, rather than the crabbed judgments of a squinty soul.

Many academic observers of South Africa's transition were dismayed as well, remarking that neither political necessity nor the attempt to create social solidarity can justify the kind of sacrifices of retributive justice the TRC's work entailed.

John Cottingham (1979) famously distinguished nine "varieties of retribution", arguing that much discussion of retributive justice is confused because people are not clear what they mean.

This, they emphasized, is crucial to preventing citizens from seeking to guarantee their security through alternative forms of self-protection, retributive justice, or resorting to armed violence.

But Sri Lanka has already rejected the notion of "retributive justice".

I think Mr Friedersdorf misses in his remarks the psychological and moral centrality of retributive justice.

The reasoning is simple when viewed through the lens of retributive theory.

The determined grind of retributive justice was about all that remained.