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

I no longer feared arrest, was confident that never would hand of human justice be laid on me, but I dimly felt that there was a divine justice which would exact retribution.

From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin