Sentence examples for retributive action from inspiring English sources

Only Mr Enoch Powell, Ulster Unionist MP for South Down, refused to supply details of his interests, an offence which theoretically could land him in contempt of the House, though retributive action is most unlikely.

However, it would be preferable to find a solution which would stop further atrocities being committed in Zimbabwe now, rather than waiting until the country (and many people within it) has been destroyed before taking retributive action through legal methods.

The source who leaked the photographs from Halo alleged the de-mining team was extremely wary of reports of "cluster bombs" discoveries as they feared retributive action by the Rajapaksa regime.

Their violence is apparently conducted on an unspoken agreement with the invader: as long as they only attack collaborationist Danes, retributive action from Germany will be limited and manageable; attacking actual German officers on Danish soil is far more dangerous.

But we have to get to the medium term first, and at present it looks as though Osborne will fail to achieve his fiscal targets: in other words, he is sticking to a programme that is hurting but not working, and inviting retributive action from the financial markets in front of whom he has laid his reputation.

Salafist groups within the Syrian opposition have threatened retributive action for Hezbollah's intervention in Syria.

In a series of Twitter messages Saturday, the Shabab media office said the attack on the Westgate shopping mall was "retributive justice" for Kenya's actions in Somalia.

Whatever the reason, Swartz did not expect his actions to attract the full retributive force of the judicial authorities.

If positive desert provides a strong reason for action, then there might be little to no need for non-retributive reasons to justify punishment; if positive desert provides a weak reason to punish, then punishment may often not be justified unless there are strong non-retributive reasons to punish.

Radack ties the actions of the drone whistleblowers into the larger post-9/11 narrative of retributive prosecutions and government attempts to hide the truth of America's War on Terror from everyone but its victims.

Retributive morality never catches him.