Sentence examples for sort of retribution from inspiring English sources

Some sort of retribution occurs when the money Angie is owed for providing the workers fails to materialise.

Marcie got upset and decided it was a sort of retribution because she had been intimate with another man while Charles was away.

In fact, the desire for some sort of retribution has also fueled much of Iraq's exuberant new brand of social activism.

Russians with Georgian surnames are now experiencing the some of the sort of retribution from officialdom that their Chechen counterparts have suffered for the past ten years.Ms Politkovskaya suffered death threats aplenty.

A more somber or ambivalent reaction to this sort of retribution provokes accusations of being insensitive, sheltered, unpatriotic.

But letting Black men escape accountability isn't some sort of retribution for our ancestors who were murdered over false accusations, or for our peers who languish behind bars for crimes that they did not commit.

Its aim is a sort of retrospective retribution, cancelling out all debts of guilt and sorrow.

The notion itself is intoxicating in part because it collapses time, allowing for the sort of retroactive retribution rarely enacted in the arc of an actual life.

The signs, he said, should also include a "veiled threat that to ignore the mandate would be to invite some sort of supernatural retribution".

"To try and chill the media and sort of threaten retribution and retaliation, which is what [Trump has] done in a number of cases, it just isn't appropriate," Bezos said.

It's a perverse form of retribution.