Sentence examples for severe retribution from inspiring English sources

They said they feared severe retribution if they returned home clean-shaven.

"Anyone who starts a rebellion that fails will face a severe retribution," he said.

His firm suppression of the opposition movement has kept it small and those who are active risk severe retribution.

A ballistic missile defense system could easily coexist with a policy of first strikes and severe retribution.

Vitriol, racist denunciations, and calls for severe retribution took precedence over attempts to understand why the event took place or to express sympathy for the victim.

After all, if the mayor became president, Mr Yeltsin and his friends could face severe retribution, which might be exacted in court, among other places.But not all the current rumours and theories fit neatly into a Yeltsinites-v-Luzhkovites pattern.

For example, if someone steals out of a desperate need to feed his family, his lawyer may suggest that he's less morally blameworthy than someone who steals for other reasons and should get a less severe sentence (retribution), but the prosecutor could respond that a heavier sentence is necessary to send a message to future thieves (deterrence).

These cruel and despotic actions provoked the righteous wrath of Elijah; according to I Kings 17, he accurately prophesied the onset of a severe drought as divine retribution.

It is odd that such a severe, Old Testament view of moral retribution seems to be taking hold in the capital of the one great liberal democracy which was established precisely to overturn the arbitrary divine rights of Kings and Queens.

Their retribution was so severe that Arafat was forced to acknowledge that "what Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories".

Some latent, twisted retribution for a severe punishment I received from Pop during my teenage years.