exact retribution
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Instead, it now views the state as a mechanism to exact retribution, discipline and punish members of that society.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2024
“The historical background supports that the goal was to exact retribution for MSU’s failure to stop Nassar rather than to pursue justice for criminal wrongdoing,” Gleicher said in a separate 14-page opinion.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
Sources told The Times the goal was not, as Ali feared, to glean information that could be used to exact retribution against those who helped the U.S.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 15, 2021
Gawker has doubtlessly overstepped the line of journalistic taste on occasion, but there is something unseemly about Thiel surreptitiously funding others' lawsuits to exact retribution.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2016
The man who had made himself personally responsible for the safety of Cavagnari's mission was a strange guest with an army whose avowed errand was to exact retribution for the crime of its destruction.
From The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 by Archibald Forbes
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