Sentences with phrase «as retribution»

I just think that the fear of the courts holds more sway for those with poor moral standards and a lack of concern for prescribed ethical rules as far as retribution is concerned, than dealing with a potentially more understanding in - house organization (from the defendant's point of view, not mine).

Punishment is defined by Merriam - Webster as «suffering, pain, or loss that serves as retribution.»

I hope God is actually closely related to the whales as His retribution will surely come then on those who violent these magnificent creatures of His.

Cuba's National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana has stopped loans to the United States over fears that Cuban expats could sue to have the state - owned artworks seized as retribution for the country's wealth re-distribution in 1959.

Typical scenarios the compromise relationships include hiding debt, running up unmanageable credit card debt, or using shopping as retribution toward a partner's slights, real or imagined.

That includes, the events that hardened her heart and drove her to curse the innocent Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning), as retribution for the wrongful acts that she had suffered over the years.

As well as retribution Villenuve is concerned with the way that people are entrapped by their perceptions of the truth and how much faith they have in their own beliefs.

But when Jimmy shoots Shawn's son in order to protect his own, Shawn swears to kill them both as retribution, forcing the estranged father / son duo to go on the run until they can clear Michael's name.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is being accused of slashing an annual grant to a respected Puerto Rican institute by nearly half this year as retribution for the director's unwillingness...

Teachers unions took it as retribution for the fact that they refused to back him during the 2014 election cycle.

Then there was the GMB's Paul Kenny warning that his union was reviewing its affiliation, followed by Unison general secretary Dave Prentis's dark mutterings of «unintended consequences» as retribution for Ed Balls's support for a public sector pay freeze.

Seemingly as retribution, Nestle has suspended US$ 150 million of investment that had been destined to Brazil.

I'd say «Come at me, bros» but I just complained about players» actions in the media, so they might decide to choke me as retribution.

Here the Pope seems to be opposing a long tradition, based on Scripture, which has defended capital punishment for its value as retribution for the evil done and as a deterrence against future crime.

That's how they feel about god, except of course they don't believe in a magically - horrid afterlife as retribution.

First, as the idea of God was heightened into nobler meanings, nothing for which he was responsible could be conceived as aimless and, therefore, the suffering which he brought on men and nations could readily be thought of, not as retribution merely, but as purposeful discipline and chastisement.

In the New Testament suffering is carried up into the heart of God himself; it is seen as no intruder in the universe, as though by some fortuity it had slipped in, or as an afterthought had been introduced as retribution.

In any society taken as a whole, enough moral evil can be discovered to furnish plausible basis for interpreting the society's suffering as retribution.

For those who view its primary purpose as retribution, however, this uncertainty makes little difference; the mere fact that a deserved punishment does not deter makes it no less richly deserved.

The essence of the idea of deserving, whether as retribution or reward, is reciprocity.

Second of all, the definition of «punishment» is «suffering, pain, or loss that serves as retribution.»

For what benefit did the Athenians obtain by putting Socrates to death, seeing that they received as retribution for it famine and pestilence?

Yet the technology news site Re / code reported that Sony was investigating to determine whether hackers working on behalf of North Korea were responsible for the attack as retribution for the company's backing of the film «The Interview.»

Prosecutors have painted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an equal partner to his brother in the bombing, citing al Qaeda propaganda found on his computer and a note he wrote that cast the attack as retribution for U.S. military campaigns in Muslim lands.

Not exact matches

The rambling manifesto frequently lashes out at women, whom he feels have declared war on him by refusing him sex and love, and he sees the shooting as an act of «retribution.»

He also appeared to hail Elliot Rodger, a 22 - year - old who killed six people in Isla Vista, California, in 2014 and who justified his attack as «retribution» for the rejections he previously received from women.

Thiel cares about his enough that when Valleywag first threatened to out him as gay, in 2006, Denton claims Thiel promised severe retribution.

What's become known as the «Group of 46» letter to Stanford Provost John Etchemendy was filed in the Phills suit, and accuses the dean of presiding over «reprimands, censures, curtailing of responsibilities, demotions, retribution for expressing concerns or raising issues, offensive behavior and decisions that have led directly to tangible employment actions such as dismissals, undesirable reassignments, forced resignations, and inequitable access to promotion opportunities.»

He left a note in that boat suggesting that the attacks were an act of retribution for US military campaigns in Muslim - dominated countries and that he viewed his brother as a martyr.

Don't act as though you're out for retribution.

WA»S technology players are experiencing the fallout from April's crash as shareholders used the annual meeting season to take retribution or at least extract concessions from directors.

Instead of running through a linear progression of levels, you go back to the command center of the Retribution between missions, which acts as a hub of sorts.

As John Kenneth Galbraith wrote, most people «deem it unwise to be sane when sanity exposes one to ridicule, condemnation for spoiling the game or the threat of severe political retribution».

As well, Albertans are so hopeful now at the prospect of liberation from the fear of retribution for speaking their minds about government behaviour and policy in public, in the workplace or even among circles of friends.

[3:56] «As for those who disbelieve, I will commit them to painful retribution in this world, and in the Hereafter.

Whose death as I understand it was not to save us, but on the contrary to show us that Source has no need or desire for retribution even when rejected and murdered.

This government was founded and based on Christian principles but firmly defends your right to believe as you will or not believe at all with no coercion or retribution forthcoming.

Eye for an eye means you are only allowed to take equivalent retribution, not unending (as was often the case).

I may as well not take the oath, because, since I don't believe in that god or any divine retribution for breaking an oath... I would be free to violate it from a religious perspective (but not an ethical one).

* worship God, who has never been, at any time for any reason, a capricious God of death, war, murder, destruction, violence, abuse, vengeance, hate, fear, lies, slavery, systemic injustice, oppression, conditional acceptance, exclusion, segregation, discrimination, shunning, ostracism, eternal condemnation, eternal punishment, retribution, sacrifices, patriarchy, matriarchy, empire, nationalism, only one culture, only one race or portion of the population, parochialism, sectarianism, dogma, creeds, pledges, oaths or censorship — and who has never behaved as a Greco - Roman or narcissistic deity.

Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church's official document outlining its position on social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.»

[7:97] Did the people of the present com - m - unities guarantee that our retribution will not come to them in the night as they sleep?

Secondly, you keep mentioning «retribution,» as though we are seeking that of Tony.

[43:39] It will not console you on that day, as transgressors, that both of you will share in the retribution.

Those sick people who think this is retribution for separation of church and state are just as sick as the Westboro gang, I agree.

Pregnancy includes plenty of suffering and pain, and you do want women to be forced through their unplanned pregnancies as a form of retribution for being «irresponsible» about having sex, so yes, you are treating pregnancy as a form of punishment.

For those unfamiliar with Westminster systems, most parliamentary votes are, as the British say, subject to the party whip: that is, members are expected to vote with the party leadership and are subject to severe retribution (such as being «de-certified» as a party - supported candidate at the next election) if they resist the whip.

We should not toss away as outgrown the belief that sickness is retribution for sin.

Thus the individual is presumed to have «earned» or «deserved» the deprivation, and it is this «deserving,» with its indissoluble element of retribution, that constitutes the deprivation as punishment (as contrasted with persecution or oppression).

[18:55] Nothing prevented the people from believing, when the guidance came to them, and from seeking the forgiveness of their Lord, except that they demanded to see the same (kind of miracles) as the previous generations, or challenged to see the retribution beforehand.