The Parthians are said to have feared especially harsh retribution if Caesar won, because the surviving son of Crassus would be among the Roman forces.

Professor Whitman detects an American appetite for harsh retribution.

A harsh retribution has been visited upon the people of Nkqokqweni.

Those fears seemed reflected in harsh Iraqi retribution.

Why had they come, risking harsh retribution?

Not long ago, that same gunfire would have led to harsh retributions and sustained tension.

Josef Goebbels himself selected Freisler to preside over the trial and pressed for swift and harsh retribution.

The editorial was careful to emphasize that the war served legitimate United States interests and that violence against Americans in Iraq deserved harsh retribution.

Despite his victories over the rebels in the south, and the harsh retribution he had imposed upon them, his prestige as a man was suffering.

In her defiance, Antigone found her true strength; and in Creon's harsh retribution he found his undoing.