Sentence examples similar to impose retribution from inspiring English sources
But for all the delays GOP senators have imposed as retribution, they've mostly voted to confirm Obama's nominees anyway.
Retribution limits how much punishment you can impose.
So you see we impose punishment based on fear and a desire for retribution, not based on rational evaluations of what crimes and criminals are most dangerous.
Co. v. Haslip, 499 U.S. 1, 19 (1991) ([P]unitive damages are imposed for purposes of retribution and deterrence).
Mr. De Gucht's decision in June to carry out his threat to impose tariffs on solar panels from China generated significant fears within the union about retribution from China.
Fundamentalist Islamic rebels captured Kabul today, swarming through the ruined capital, promising to impose strict Islamic rule and executing a former President in one of their first acts of retribution.
He has promised not to impose a policy of retribution.He even thinks he can accommodate the "securocrats", as Zimbabwe's high-ranking military people and police are known, who have become ever more powerful and rich (from the proceeds of diamonds, among other things) since the sullied election of 2008, and who are now considered Zanu-PF's most important constituency.
But one of Rwanda's main problems, in terms of justice and retribution, has been that so many Hutus, hundreds of thousands of them, became génocidaires; it was always going to be impossible to impose the harshest sentences on all of them.
would impose similar restrictions.
