Sentence examples for terms of retribution from inspiring English sources

The question frames the conversation in terms of retribution, but it is not possible to hold to account every man who has ever behaved disrespectfully and disgustingly toward a woman.

Assuming that we are thinking of justice in terms of retribution and the just deserts for murderers include being put to death, does a murderer who thinks of his death as martyrdom deserve to be killed?

In terms of retribution, the Impact Team has a clear message "Too bad for those men, they're cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion," and "Too bad for ALM [Ashley Madison's parent company], you promised secrecy but didn't deliver".

The governments of the world still think in primitive terms of retribution and killing while the nuclear weapons in Russia and the US are presently maintained on hair trigger alert, and these two nuclear superpowers are practicing nuclear war drills during a state of heightened international tension exacerbated by the Ukrainian situation and the Middle East.

In it, he coolly announced his motives for what he termed a "Day of Retribution".

Just last week Stuart's father, Dr. Michael Stuart of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and USA Hockey's chief medical officer, spoke disapprovingly of what he termed a culture of retribution.

If it could be said that King's vision expected too much of the species, Malcolm's seemed a vision of humankind's nature reduced to the basest, most minimal terms of anger and retribution for abuse.

But one of Rwanda's main problems, in terms of justice and retribution, has been that so many Hutus, hundreds of thousands of them, became génocidaires; it was always going to be impossible to impose the harshest sentences on all of them.

It's not a hopeless scenario if the justice system starts thinking in terms of reconciliation rather than retribution, according to Pate.

For the short term, the international force in Kosovo must persist in defending against individual acts of retribution until a long-term solution can be found.

Would intelligence agencies no longer use the "full array of their authority because of fear of what might happen in terms of public opinion or political retribution"?