Sentence examples for legitimate retribution from inspiring English sources
Esau chooses peace rather than a "legitimate" retribution for the wrong that has been done him.
Legitimate retribution is meant to restore balance, and thus an eye for an eye is fair, but an eye for an eyelash is not.
The perpetrators and some of those sympathetic to their cause claimed those acts were nevertheless morally legitimate, whether as retribution (exacted on the assumption that no member of the ruling class was innocent) or as a means necessary for the overthrow of the unjust order.
To do so would promote tension between neighbors and, even worse, might leave some folks too fearful of retribution to make legitimate complaints.
In his opinion for the Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy said "none of the legitimate goals of penal sanctions — retribution, deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation — is served to justify life without parole for juvenile nonhomicide offenders".
The government argued in Strasbourg that this section not only justifies but even requires the release of a prisoner whose continued detention cannot be justified on legitimate grounds of punishment, reform or retribution.
The clergy member, who is currently in Lebanon and requested anonymity because he feared retribution from the Syrian government, said that legitimate concerns about the Islamist character of the rebel movement were nonetheless playing into "phobias" by many Christians about Muslims.
Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.
Egypt took full retribution.
RETRIBUTION, by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
