retribution

How To Use retribution In A Sentence

• They dismiss concerns that some of the Africans who flocked to Libya under Mr. Gadhafi's policy of pan-Africanism might be subject to retribution.
• He cannot be identified for fear of retribution. Times, Sunday Times
• As a result, the juvenile justice system has emphasized rehabilitation, not retribution, requital, or punishment.
• He is visited by Pat, the black-market scally with retribution on his mind for the loss of the trawling father he never met.
• Some heads have admitted that they are afraid to use their powers for fear of retribution. Times, Sunday Times
• They just go through life doing exactly as they please, expecting no retribution for their behaviour.
• One purpose of a term of imprisonment is to secure just retribution for society, the other is to secure the rehabilitation of the prisoner.
• Hubris, sometimes spelled hybris ancient Greek ὕβρις, is a term used in modern English to indicate overweening pride, self-confidence, superciliousness, or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution. Touchy, Touchy: Catching Up With "The Climb"
• In specifying severe judgment, as is widely recommended, are the bishops engaged in a form of retribution for having erred in the past by latitudinarian excess?
• Rankin, who can outwrite most anybody in the business, drops one clue too many early on, but he's so deft at maintaining a breakneck .... that readers will zip right along as he swings from whodunit to international conspiracy plot to war-story retribution. Blood Hunt by Ian Rankin: Book summary