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How to use retributive in a sentence

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It is important to note, however, that Brown held that the definition of punishment should not be limited to retributive actions.
It is often supposed that Americans' retributive streak is linked to their greater religiosity.
By contrast, the retributive theory places strict limits on the allowable punishment.
But it seems to the Professor that nurture has made women more receptive to the idea of retributive violence.
When Indra slays Vrita, Brahmahatya, a terrible retributive apparition, like the Erinyes or Furies of Greek myth, pursues him.
They suggest that female characters are often ambiguously placed as retributive agents and eroticized victims of violence.
You have distinguished between a restorative form of justice and a retributive form of justice.
The blacks who now have the power are not bringing about retributive justice.
First, there is retributive justice, where wrongdoers are held accountable for their actions.
A thoughtlessly retributive regime commands little respect and contributes little if anything to the prevention of pollution.
My great-grand uncle became a dispenser of retributive justice.
Kolbert's article demonstrates the distinction between restorative and retributive justice.
I think Mr Friedersdorf misses in his remarks the psychological and moral centrality of retributive justice.
In the past, there has often been a disciplined, retributive approach to the destruction of property.
I would still want to stress the fact that it was justice, not retributive justice but restorative justice.
It is a society in which retributive justice gives way to restorative justice.
This experience raises legitimate questions about traditional methods of retributive justice.
The retributive approach is to prove the other party wrong, the conqueror and the vanquished, the victim and the criminal.
Clearly, the retributive approach to criminal justice has not yielded satisfactory results.
The desires involved in these kinds of moral and personal feelings are of the same category as those involved in retributive punishment as we are now understanding it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Thus Baptista had sense enough to see the retributive fairness of this issue.
There was a retributive justice for all those who infracted the rules of the game.
In the moral elevation of her soul it seemed like an act of retributive justice.
Nothing but the hand of a retributive Providence can avail to reach them.
It was retributive justice with a vengeance, was Neds further opinion.
And what a case is here presented of the retributive justice of God!
After all, is not half the world running away from retributive justice?
In it the moralist beholds the retributive justice of providence.
A retributive power had directed the fatal engines of destruction.
In part, retributive justice aims to remove dangerous elements from society by force.
These three considerations all militate in favor of the state being the exclusive exacter of retributive justice.
The wrath of man has worked out the retributive justice of God.
The retributive stroke, swift and visible, is not needed to declare this.
The modern Criminal Justice System is broadly tasked with meting out retributive justice while simultaneously protecting the rights of the accused.
This was evidently a retributive punishment for wasting human food.
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