NOUN | retribution | retributions | |
SYNO | payback | requital | retribution | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- 6. The certainty of a perfect divine retribution.
- There are also said to be some karmas that may or may not lead to retribution at all, these are indeterminate ("aniyata") karmas which are contrasted with determinate karmas, i.e.
- Shahan Natalie participated as United States District delegate. Retribution against those who had been responsible for the genocide against the Armenians was one of the issues on the Congress's agenda.
- Many ZIPRA cadres defected after Entumbane, fearing retribution.
- She later supported the expressive theory of retribution (see her article "An Expressive Theory of Retribution" from Retributivism and Its Critics, ed. Wesley Cragg. Franz Steiner, 1992).
- Koch is best known for his assertion that the Old Testament wisdom literature has no concept of divine retribution.
- Qisas is the concept of retribution in Islamic law.
- The plot was based on Buddhist teachings of universal justice, retribution.
- In Buddhism and Daoism, bàoyìng is equated to the concept of dharmic retribution.
- The artist invited Mott's representatives, fully aware of possible retribution, and welcoming it.
- The "theodic settlement" in the Book of Deuteronomy interprets all afflictions as just punishment for sin, that is, as retribution.
- Lincoln-Douglas: Resolved: Criminal justice ought to prioritize rehabilitation over retribution, restitution or deterrence.
- In Greek mythology, the goddess Hera often became enraged when her husband, Zeus, would impregnate mortal women, and would exact divine retribution on the children born of such affairs.
- if thou wilt enjoy life in the halls of men, what retribution get the sons of mortals, if with foul words they assail each other".
- Dave tells Bret and Jemaine that American rappers hold grudges and seek retribution.
- Not only was the notion of "ganying" resonance situated in the cultural domains of Daoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, but also in Chinese folk religion, with a meaning of "divine retribution; moral retribution".
- They do not seek to justify punishment with reference to some future benefit which it may achieve; it is incorrect, in fact, to describe retribution as a "purpose of punishment."
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