Sentence examples for state retribution from inspiring English sources
Greenpeace's first entanglement with state retribution occurred in the early 1970s during protests against French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
His defenders, of course, raise the spectre of free speech: equating the right to speak without fear of state retribution with the right to speak without fear of being kicked off the state broadcaster.
As this might undermine the state, retribution was considered an absolute necessity and the crime deserving of the ultimate punishment.
Human Rights Watch, a New York-based monitoring group, has documented a campaign of systematic state-sponsored retribution and terror against lawyers, journalists and civic organisations as well as people suspected of supporting the MDC.
It was the anticorruption campaign that Mr. Fang challenged, and which drew the state's swift retribution.
One of the men was shown telling the "apostates who recruited to me" to stop resisting the so-called Islamic State and vowed "retribution" moments before he was killed.
His refusal to say where he stands infuriated Michael R. Long, the chairman of the Conservative Party, who said he would withhold the party's ballot line from a couple of Republican state senators in retribution.
He detailed his so-called "day of retribution", stating that he would take his revenge against humanity.
Badly conceived bills die a thousand political deaths — in the appropriations process, in the states, through electoral retribution, in the executive appointments of a succeeding administration and ultimately in amendment and repeal.
An Islamic State fighter has vowed retribution for US-led air strikes against the group, after the attack launched with Arab allies killed dozens of militants overnight.
If America is planning to jail for life Bradley Manning, who was behind the 2010 WikiLeaks release of tens of thousands of state department memos, what retribution lies in store for Snowden, who is guilty of leaking on a much bigger scale?
