Sentence examples for retribution toward from inspiring English sources

Despite the family's loss, Melia said there was "no feeling of vengeance or retribution" toward Simelane.

"This is bottom-of-the-barrel pricing," said one agent who refused to allow writers to sign the new contracts, but declined to be identified for fear of retribution toward the agent's clients.

"If you get people using these cellphones and reporting crimes and it results in retribution toward somebody because the data really isn't stripped away, then people will never touch it," Pascual says.

One of those discussions pertained to US sanctions against Russia and occurred on 29 December – the same day Barack Obama levied more sanctions against Russian officials as an act of retribution toward its government for meddling in the election.

His administration is under a criminal investigation by the federal government after revelations in late 2013 that his office deliberately shut down a major bridge between New Jersey and New York as retribution toward a political opponent.

In his second inaugural address, Lincoln had sent the message that there would not be retribution toward the South but rather reconciliation.

It's about shifting the culture of Baltimore away from death, violence and retribution and toward love, life and hope.

"I've not been aware of anybody being actually able to demonstrate that there has been any kind of retribution exacted toward a student [due to a complaint]," she said.

The past 30 years were a period of strong support for capital punishment, as part of a trend toward retribution in criminal sentencing.

In periods when Americans have tended to think of crime as the product of the criminal's free will, the criminal justice system tilts toward retribution, and capital punishment has grown more popular.

The conventional wisdom about the primary purpose of sentencing shifted away from rehabilitation as a dominant philosophy and toward retribution or 'just deserts". The method of sentencing shifted away from broad judicial discretion to be exercised on a case-bycase basis and toward narrower authority constrained by rules laid down by legislatures or sentencing commissions.