Sentence examples for prompt retribution from inspiring English sources

Confidential eventually inflicted damage expensive enough to prompt retribution.

It's not only rape that fails to prompt retribution from those affected.

But their criticism in public is measured, out of fear that it could prompt retribution by regulators or make them fodder for bank-bashing politicians.

For fear of prompt retribution, almost no one in Medellín knew that the film being shot was "La Virgen de los Sicarios".

The paper's political reporters are often too cowed even to ask questions at government press conferences, rivals say.Mr Abe would never go so far as to yank a broadcast licence, says one LDP politician, for that would smack of authoritarian government and prompt retribution at the ballot box.

This afforded a highly visible means of discouraging sexual coercion: an assault was highly likely to become public knowledge, and the assailant would almost certainly face prompt retribution from the victim's male relatives.

[Page A10.] The latest suicide attack prompted quick retribution.

Several people close to Chen have already been rounded up, prompting fears of retribution.

Even then, Assad's actions prompted no Iraq-style retribution.

The verdict spared the defendant, Steven D. Green, death for a crime that prompted Iraqi demands for retribution and raised questions about Army oversight of its combat-stressed forces.

The drawings, seen as blasphemous and a deliberate provocation by many Muslims, prompted repeated attempts at violent retribution against the cartoonists, the newspaper and its employees.