(n.) That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or wrong.
(n.) Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) But people have also faced retribution even far from Chen's home.
(2) Photograph: Owen Gibson Yet for those who challenge authority through their words or actions, retribution is swift.
(3) There are already calls for large protests in Egypt this week demanding fair trials and retribution, as well as measures to purge former regime officials from political and economic life.
(4) • New York 's Jonathan Chait declares Christie all but finished: "The e-mails prove that Christie’s loyalists closed the bridge deliberately as political retribution, not as a 'traffic study' as claimed.
(5) 9.51pm BST And now, we prepare for retribution: David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) No Senator who heeledtoday on the NRA's command should have the gall to issue mournful statements the next time gun violence strikes.
(6) When it also became clear that Gaddafi had secretly been developing nuclear and chemical weapons, retribution was swift.
(7) The four did not want to give their full names for fear of retribution.
(8) Meanwhile the Police Federation's attempts to extract retribution for the disputed p-word, in the form of Andrew Mitchell's sacking, have been roundly slagged off by former Labour minister Chris Mullin , who last week described the organisation as "a bully", "a bunch of headbangers" and "a mighty vested interest that has seen off just about all attempts to reform the least reformed part of the public service".
(9) "We owe it to them to make sure that where they are under real threat of retribution or intimidation, we look after them."
(10) The opposition had warned, with each stage of the “normalization” – the release on both sides of political prisoners; a deal to allow telecom companies to strengthen the internet on the island and for US banks to do business there; a US agreement to expand remittances and ease travel restrictions – that too many opponents of the Castro regime remain in prisons, or remain sentenced to silence under threat of retribution.
(11) Tyson Fury has no fear of retribution – he will say and do as he pleases | Kevin Mitchell Read more Every Saturday night, crowds of men from our rundown housing estate would get tanked up and go to watch those from an even lower pecking order than themselves inflict pain and humiliation on each other, while the spectators egged them on.
(12) The stated desire to avenge the massacre has also given rise to fears by locals from Tikrit that the militias may carry out retributive killings or summary executions.
(13) He is finding scapegoats for the scapegoated and demands retribution for their suffering.
(14) Clegg said he hoped it would "not be conducted in a mood or spirit of retribution".
(15) The attacks were “to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers”, a spokesman said.
(16) And indeed, why in such a scenario confine America's retribution to the Taliban?
(17) This hauteur helped her navigate the gay story: she was simply too good for that, and she was powerful enough in her younger years to be able to threaten retribution.
(18) On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $15-per-hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.
(19) The retribution was swift and decisive, with Blatter talking about "angels and devils".
(20) Finally, we propose a model that may be useful for lessening the conflict between retributive and utilitarian perspectives.
Vendetta
Definition:
(n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
Example Sentences:
(1) I followed Brooks over the seven-month period from when he was arrested until he was cleared, and the Guardian published a story stating that Brooks had been the victim of a police vendetta .
(2) So, too, does the bloody tradition of "rido", meaning clan warfare and inter-communal vendettas.
(3) Shaina Nana Chudasama, the spokeswoman for Modi's Hindu nationalist party, said that some charges against politicians were filed due to political vendettas.
(4) The Manchester experiment must be given a fair opportunity to succeed or fail, because local democracy is too important to be at the mercy of vendettas or changing fashions in planning policy, especially when instability plagues national politics in Britain.
(5) Erdoğan has also been criticised by EU countries for pursuing his vendetta with the Kurds while failing to stem the northwards flow of Syrian refugees and the southwards flow of Isis recruits from Europe and North America.
(6) Shiner also accused the government of pursuing a personal vendetta against him in revenge for his work gathering hundreds of cases against British forces in Iraq.
(7) Albanian's penal code refers to vendetta as premeditated murder, but the courts are still at a loss to know how to cope with this parallel system of justice.
(8) The connection was such that before long Ava had, Munn claims, chosen him as the person to whom she would confide all she knew about her ex-husband, Frank Sinatra , and his vendetta against mafia boss Sam Giancana, which in turn became the inside story of the Kennedys' involvement in the murder of Marilyn Monroe.
(9) It goes without saying that this charge is bogus and the result of a political vendetta.
(10) In a country such as Russia, where some people criticise their leaders for not being authoritarian enough, judicial vendettas are still tolerated by many – but if a genuine economic crisis hits Russia and the opposition's ranks grow further, we may be in for a wild ride.
(11) The decision was driven by the Tasmanian Liberals who have run a vendetta against the Greens and environmentalists since they lost their battle to flood the Franklin in 1983,” said Brown.
(12) The killing of Kevin McGuigan on 12 August was an internal republican vendetta for the shooting of a former IRA commander in May.
(13) Kandahar is a hotbed of long-running personal vendettas.
(14) The GOP – with its decades-running vendetta against women of people of color – allowed him to step right into the party’s candidacy, swapping over 40 years of dog-whistle politics for an attack hound bent on going after those already on the losing end of Republican policies.
(15) Supporters of the Anonymous hacking collective wore Guy Fawkes masks in reference to the cult pro-revolution film V for Vendetta.
(16) The Coalition’s Senate leader, Eric Abetz, told parliament the move was part of Palmer’s “personal vendetta” against Newman.
(17) V IS FOR VENDETTA Fergie pursued dangerous rivals across the pages of national newspapers with unmatched vigour.
(18) In 1975 Margaret Thatcher spoke of the Labour government’s “disastrous vendetta against small businesses and the self-employed”.
(19) The Azerbaijani media, which often acts as a mouth piece for the government, responded to the news by accusing Clooney of harbouring a vendetta against the Turkic countries of central Asia.
(20) It was necessary for God to come "down" personally to Earth and have himself tortured and executed, after being "betrayed" (though why it was a betrayal since getting himself executed was the main purpose of the visit, is never explained, nor is the millennia-long vendetta against Jews as "Christ-killers").