Sentence examples for just retribution from inspiring English sources

"Just Retribution [for the killers of the martyrs]" marched from the Martyr Abd el-Menem Riyad Square.

In an interview outside a Catholic church, with Simon Srebnik present, bystanders alleged the Holocaust was just retribution for the killing of Jesus.

The emir stood up and explained that this pilot had dropped bombs on Muslims, and his execution by fire was a just retribution under Islamic law.

This means, in concrete terms, no more seeking or demanding moral justifications, no more experiencing or trying to instill moral guilt, no more assuming or assigning moral responsibility, no more assessing moral desert or exacting just retribution, etc.

Like his contemporary Amos, the great prophet of social justice, Hosea was a prophet of doom; but he held out a hope to the people that the Day of Yahweh contained not just retribution but also the possibility of renewal.

As for voters' stated desire to see bankers suffer just retribution, they need to explain their dislike of well-paid BBC or railway bosses who did not cause the credit crunch.Other explanations are needed for the public mood.

But retribution can shade into vengeance.

"It is just simple retribution, and we are appalled by it," he said.

The conscious psychological motive for this behavior, regardless of its effect, is typically not deterrence but what some psychologists call just-deserts retribution.

This kind of payback is closer to what sociologists and philosophers call just-deserts retribution.

Furthermore, they believe, capital punishment is a just form of retribution, expressing and reinforcing the moral indignation not only of the victim's relatives but of law-abiding citizens in general.