Sentences with phrase «exact retribution»

This somber tale of revenge left Sasha with one arm, one sword, and all the right tools to exact retribution on those that took her family from her.

It's all colored by the threat uttered in the opening confessional, however, in which the sex - abuse survivor declares that he will exact retribution on the Church by killing an innocent priest — Father James — since killing a guilty man would mean nothing.

The difference is that it is the victim that has come back to exact the retribution, rather than a pissed - off cop who is tired of seeing the criminals get away with murder.

The stymied predator might even try to exact retribution, a possibility Jahren does not explicitly address.

Clegg has been open that he had supported equalisation of boundaries in principle, but said months ago that he would exact retribution against the Tories for failing to back a deal to introduce an elected House of Lords.

I asked if the governor himself would exact retribution from Senate Republicans by coming out against them in 2012, or, at the very least, openly pushing to help the Democrats reclaim the majority — a move that got former Gov. Eliot Spitzer in hot water when he took office in 2009 with the GOP still in power.

They also know that a vengeful electorate is waiting, eager to exact retribution for the Liberals» broken promises.

Vecchio and McCarthy suggested last week that Ellis and town Conservatives were trying to exact retribution because, McCarthy said, they wouldn't «appoint their political people to jobs.»

Since He is infinite, His ability to deliver exact retribution is understood.

The rabbinical version is interesting as illustrating the doctrine of exact retribution: the one evil deed and the one good deed are cancelled out by the funerals, and then the two inherit their respective rewards.

Two early goals from Paulo Dybala and Miralem Pjanic had put the Bianconeri ahead, and they exacted their retribution for two previous losses this season by knocking out their one - time rivals.

«These revelations are troubling for any public official,» Wasserman Schultz said, «but they also indicate what we've come to expect from Governor Christie — when people oppose him, he exacts retribution.

This is a competent enough, if plodding, espionage thriller with mostly compelling actors (except for the lead, Jessica Chastain, a lightweight who is mysteriously being called great in this film, and who just received a Best Actress nomination) that tells the story of the painstaking intelligence gathering that led to the ultimate revenge killing, when U.S. Navy Seals exacted retribution for the murder of 3000 people on September 11, 2001, on U.S. soil.

This unflinchingly horrific revenge thriller has a whiff of Death Wish in its story of a father exacting retribution far beyond reason.

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So much money was flowing in that perhaps exacting violent retribution just wasn't worth the effort.

God does not exact vengeance, retaliation, retribution, or justice.

A trio of New York lawmakers are calling for a New York - based investigation of New Jersey officials closing access lanes on the George Washington Bridge in order to exact political retribution.

The call from Sen. Adriano Espaillat and city Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez and Assemblywoman Gabriela Rosa come after Gov. Chris Christie apologized in a lengthy news conference for his government and political aides shutting the bridge down in order to exact political retribution on the mayor of Fort Lee.

to express similiar concerns — especially since the mayor his Cuomo's hand - picked state Democratic Party co-chair, and no retribution has (yet) been exacted on her for speaking her mind.

In each case, the killer exacts a fitting retribution upon his victim: An obese man is forced to eat SpaghettiO's until his stomach bursts.

The continuation, through Warren, of the retribution against white brutality exacted by Django is offered as cathartic, and Tarantino's sincere commitment to fighting racism is welcome given the current tensions provoked by police killings of black citizens in the United States.

Entitlement: The child feels entitled to have his or her every desire met by the targeted - rejected parent to the child's satisfaction, and if the targeted - rejected parent fails to meet the child's entitled expectations to the child's satisfaction, the child then feels entitled and justified in exacting a retaliatory retribution against the targeted - rejected parent for the judged parental failure.