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    retribution


    1. they received some sort of petty retribution when you were indifferent all


    2. to invite swift retribution


    3. Other miscreants hidden in alleyways and nooks along the street, each hiding their own unapproved activities, had watched the failed prank and were now mindlessly streaming toward their 'captain,' preparing for the retribution of his mislaid 'honor


    4. Flitter trod on Betty Alpha's feet but she forgave him after she kicked his shin in retribution


    5. at Jean which promised severe retribution if his plan


    6. “You’re certain that it was the prisoner? You needn’t fear his retribution


    7. And a vision says Karmic retribution does occur: The fear of death never overcome even after death: Judgment is based on option/select


    8. His retribution would be something far harder to endure than a knife across the throat


    9. They are unpredictable, driven by a passion for retribution at any cost


    10. Retribution still reigns in this world, black or white,”

    11. Some interpret these occurrences as retribution or payback time for the sins of the human beings whilst others insist that these are signs of Armageddon as prophesized


    12. Sin and retribution is another way


    13. This was the place he had come to in anger with thoughts of, if not exactly revenge, then at least retribution


    14. Taxes upon luxuries are finally paid by the consumers of the commodities taxed, without any retribution


    15. Such taxes upon luxuries, as the greater part of the duties of customs and excise, though they all fall indifferently upon every different species of revenue, and are paid finally, or without any retribution, by whoever consumes the commodities upon which they are imposed ; yet they do not always fall equally or proportionally upon the revenue of every individual


    16. fruitless road of retribution


    17. Not even a single cub, will escape our retribution


    18. offended seeking retribution, the offender, redemption


    19. If you could be eliminated before you were introduced to society, however, I would have no proof that you ever existed, so there would be no violation and so no retribution


    20. Babe Langdon wanted retribution

    21. His body was awkwardly positioned now and precariously balanced, openly inviting hits of retribution


    22. There would be consequences, and the rest of the group tensed, before retribution was administered


    23. If we consider the testimony by the Amalekite in today’s day and age, we would probably acquit him of any retribution for his act, but what does David do? He has the Amalekite killed, on the spot! Why, because the Amalekite took a life of an anointed of God, even though Saul’s sins were terrible, to put it mildly


    24. Mother Earth will unleash the negative energy that the global corporations have created through their overwhelming voracity; that karmic retribution will indeed incite a war of apocalyptic proportions between her and mankind


    25. It is their retribution for past crimes


    26. retribution; revealed evil desires of the heart; not fit for service; promise of tears being wiped away and seeing Jesus; inability and dullness of


    27. have said to me, that the retribution, which has been spoken of by you, shall come on the nations


    28. And you have said to me that the retribution which was spoken of by you shall be endured by the nations


    29. The message of the Greek tragedies is recognition of the boundaries of human action, of limits to violence, and of the need to rectify injustice and to assure retribution against those who violate those principles


    30. with varied tortures; 22 therefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch

    31. Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the great day of judgement and punishment and torment of those who curse forever and retribution for their spirits


    32. This class is bought off by welfare, by having to pay no income tax, by the prospect of nationalized health care, and by the incessant chant that they are “victims” to whom society owes retribution


    33. But too often cower mute in the shadows to avoid ridicule or retribution for being politically incorrect if spoken aloud


    34. relatives--a house slave--who had stolen it as retribution against her white master


    35. statement would be robbed of any meaning if not for the possibility of future retribution in a


    36. They were childless and then, she adopted Krishnan’s mother in retribution to washing his sins and giving life to a girl child


    37. 4 So that if ever those prosperous cities say: 5 'Why has the mighty God brought on us this retribution?' Say you to them you and those like you who shall have seen this evil: '(This is the evil) and retribution which is coming on you and on your people in its destined time that the nations may be thoroughly struck


    38. 1 And I answered and said: 'Note! you have shown me the method of the times and that which shall be after these things and you have said to me that the retribution which has been spoken of by you shall come on the nations


    39. And with both of us thought dead, any could say what they truly thought of the two of us, without fear of retribution, or benefit of reward


    40. And nothing earned our admiration more than his encouraging us to try to take his life by any means we liked, if we dared, and he said he would not kill the assassins in retribution for trying

    41. 20 O that bitter and yet not bitter day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapelt and to all his torments! 21 He pierced the balls of their eyes and cut out their tongues and put them to death with varied tortures; 22 therefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch


    42. In spite of Simon’s fears, no one had come for him, and no retribution had been visited on his head by the gods


    43. only hoped they wouldn’t be thinking of retribution when it


    44. They were escaping threats of deadly retribution


    45. She wondered if the only thing in Zoe’s heart was a burning desire for revenge, for swift and terrible retribution for what had been done to her homeland and to her mother


    46. she was still alive to feel his retribution


    47. As the hours passed anger morphed to fury and a determination to exact retribution


    48. Violet’s rage at the man who had so ignominiously dumped her had reached incendiary level and without much effort she had persuaded Irma to join her in exacting retribution


    49. Neither Jarek nor Zeno mentioned their little act of retribution


    50. And the best gases are the paralysis gases—those allow hunters to bring in fresh live idiots for test chambers, display booths, and the ever-popular retribution houses








































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    Synonyms for "retribution"

    retribution payback vengeance requital penalty chastisement

    "retribution" definitions

    a justly deserved penalty


    the act of correcting for your wrongdoing


    the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life