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  • Knowles answers the disses throughout the new album -- on the retributional title track, inspired by a critic who compared the band's ever-changing lineup to the "Survivor" TV series, and on "Happy Face": "There's plenty of people who don't like me, but 10 times more who love me."

    A Date With Destiny 2007

  • It is interesting that you write that such a racialized perspective serves an offensive, or retributional, function (as I perceived your writing).

    Bob Gibson Savages Scottie Griffin at cvillenews.com 2005

  • It turns out the Home Office represent that this would only be due to mass media overreaction stirring up the retributional forces of unreason.

    Ministry of Truth: Ripping Into Mail with Times 2007

  • It turns out the Home Office represent that this would only be due to mass media overreaction stirring up the retributional forces of unreason.

    Archive 2007-08-19 2007

  • That makes this post sound a bit retributional, no?

    Forbes.com: News Kashmir Hill 2011

  • That makes this post sound a bit retributional, no?

    unknown title 2011

  • Chris Murphy and if you know any OMG's who will wreak retributional havoc.

    Sydney Indymedia - Comments 2009

  • Chris Murphy and if you know any OMG's who will wreak retributional havoc.

    Sydney Indymedia - Comments TrueBlue_oz 2009

  • Chris Murphy and if you know any OMG's who will wreak retributional havoc.

    Sydney Indymedia - Comments 2009

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