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Though a dedicated utilitarian, Wechsler became increasingly aware of retribution's value to sentencing over the course of his career, using that awareness to guide both the development and adoption of the MPC.
Walker on Herbert Wechsler, the Model Penal Code, and the Uses of Revenge Mary L. Dudziak 2009
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Yet, missing from such calumny is an awareness of retribution's subtle yet significant role in both the drafting and enactment of the first Model Penal Code MPC.
Walker on Herbert Wechsler, the Model Penal Code, and the Uses of Revenge Mary L. Dudziak 2009
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For myself, I support a boycott, not for retribution's sake, but to encourage a change in mindset.
"What matters is people understand California is the most powerful state in the world" Sun Bin 2008
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As if the retribution coming could bring the retribution's end
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So God took him away from war's tumults and from retribution's ungrateful office, -- home.
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The intention was, though they reserved it, that if ever, under the guise of amity, the chief should mean them mischief, and effect it, it should be but partially; so that some of the five might survive, not only for their families 'sake, but also for retribution's.
The Confidence-Man 1857
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The intention was, though they reserved it, that if ever, under the guise of amity, the chief should mean them mischief, and effect it, it should be but partially; so that some of the five might survive, not only for their families 'sake, but also for retribution's.
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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The cruel to animals end in cruelty to man; and strange and violent deaths, marked with retribution's bloody finger, have in all ages fallen from heaven on such as wantonly harm innocent beasts.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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If he did horrible things, well, perhaps retribution's being divvied.
Poppy Mom 2009
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