Sentence examples for public retribution from inspiring English sources

Some public retribution for a crime is "required" by political theorists and tabloid editors.

Judges determining pretrial release are not authorized to act as social workers or agents of public retribution.

As for any sense of public retribution, the spectacle of execution has given way to largely private proceedings because of government embarrassment.

He creates and enacts an odious screenplay of grandiose and public retribution.

People shouldn't have to hide their identities because they fear public retribution.

From the largest cities to the smallest towns, any sign of an office holder feathering his own nest will be met with public retribution.

This survey also showed that the public found retribution to be a considerably less powerful argument for capital punishment than deterrence.

And as someone who voted against Europe in the 1975 referendum, I hope that if the public wants retribution on Heath, they will yet get their chance to demolish his only remaining legacy by voting No in the forthcoming EU referendum.

"The drumline policy was designed to provide public catharsis through retribution, not public safety," Christopher Neff, a public-policy shark expert who teaches at the University of Sydney, said.

But that won't cut it with these true believers, bent on a public show of retribution.

The case posed two sometimes conflicting challenges for the Afghan legal system: satisfying public pressure for retribution while making sure the trial was perceived as fair.