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retributive action

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See: punishment, sanction


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The connection between fatherhood and revenge likewise evolves from the reflex-action of vindictiveness in The Debt Collector through moralistic vigilantism in The Boondock Saints to The Man Who Sued God, a film that relinquishes retributive action in favor of a New Testament model of fatherhood.
Then students or others should be protected from unreasonable, malicious, petulant or retributive actions.
Fernandez is concerned that planes could be grounded if the United States unleash retributive action on Islamic countries in the wake of the terrorist attacks last week.
 
 
 
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