| 单词 | retributory |
| 例句 | As Afghanistan’s once-again rulers, the Taliban would refrain from retributory violence and respect women’s rights — at least so far as Islam allows. The Taliban insists it has changed. Afghanistan’s future hinges on whether that’s true. 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Afghan leaders who have been the Taliban’s nemesis for the past two decades issued pleas for the group to refrain from retributory violence. Afghan government collapses as Taliban sweeps in, U.S. sends more troops to aid chaotic withdrawal 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Yet it could establish a basic retributory process, not least because Sinn Fein, the likeliest spoiler, seems willing to accept it. Haunted by killers 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z But the concept of retributory justice is as little applicable to the far-reaching relations in the life of humanity as to the actions of the laws of Nature, for instance gravity or electricity. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z His life story was indeed a pitiful one, and the Major would not but admit that there was something of retributory justice about the fate which had overtaken his old uncle. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z Being full-blooded and sometimes inclined to be rather mean, I endeavoured to accept this retributory plague as a chastening which might prove beneficial to both body and soul. Seeds of Pine Again it should be said that no attempt is here made to give more than a very fragmentary description, and a few hints, of the manner in which the retributory laws of nature work. Elementary Theosophy The glade is now quiet and lonely as if human passions had never been unloosed there in the terrific crime of parricide—the consequent remorse merging into madness, and a fiery retributory death. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 Were even the gods not exempt from retributory justice? Under the Rose In violent hands, but deadly sure and retributory. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills Strange was this retributory fate which had brought these two into the most intimate relations of husband and wife. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) Answer.—There are two sorts of retributory punishments. Some Answered Questions This judgment of God, as viewed by those who have recognized Bahá’u’lláh as His Mouthpiece and His greatest Messenger on earth, is both a retributory calamity and an act of holy and supreme discipline. The Promised Day Is Come Of course this was a dreadful rebuff for "pacific penetration," but the matter was kept quiet as a little premature, since in Europe the coast is not quite clear enough yet for retributory measures. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond Spinoza could not regard the bad man as an object of Divine anger and a subject of retributory punishment. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc It must be that God had a retributory end in view in that great event. Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick With us are no retributory superstitions, by which a foundation of charity compensates, through ages, to the poor, for the rapine and injustice of a day. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) It is not only a retributory and destructive fire, but a disciplinary and creative process, whose aim is the salvation, through unification, of the entire planet. The Promised Day Is Come I have already begun my retributory purposes, as I may call them. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 Imogen's figure, bereaved of her father, of her lover, desolate, amazed, rose before her and, behind it, the hovering, retributory gaze of her husband. A Fountain Sealed |
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