Sentence examples for retribution of from inspiring English sources

By retribution, of course.

In a sense, I distrust the notion of justice; it seems mostly a matter of retribution; of punishment.

– Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer There is never a time or place for true love.

Not only was she risking the retribution of the Nazi occupying forces, she was risking the health of her family – because Louis was suffering from tuberculosis.

They feared the retribution of past regimes, the secret police and most of all, the press, which for years was closely connected to the Russian government.

It was retribution of sorts for Brazil's new captain, making his first start since a broken vertebra against the same opposition curtailed his involvement at the World Cup in brutal fashion.

"There is life for you in the law of retribution, o men of understanding," he said, quoting the Koran.

Fear of retribution, fear of not being believed, fear of having to continuously relive a trauma, to name a few. .

This film didn't need a retribution out of Joel Silver movies like the "Lethal Weapon" series.

(Two Treatises 2.8) Locke talks both of retribution and of punishing only for reparation and restraint.

But Jesus rejected an ethic of retribution for an ethic of love.