Edmund had killed Rawlins ' family in retaliation, and Rawlins himself went rogue in order to pursue King Snake outside the law.

A sort of symbolic retaliation was the punishment for the offender, seen in cutting off the hand that struck a father or stole a trust ; in cutting off the breast of a wet nurse who switched the child entrusted to her for another ; in the loss of the tongue that denied father or mother ( in Elamite contracts, the same penalty was inflicted for perjury ); in the loss of the eye that pried into forbidden secrets.

In retaliation, Carrie kills her mother by stopping her heart.

In retaliation, young James kills Thomas with bone claws that emerge from the back of his hands and is cast out by his mother ( who then kills herself ).

The powerful Grand Princess Liu Piao ( 劉嫖 ), the mother of Empress Chen Jiao, angry that Consort Wei had siphoned off the imperial favor that her daughter had previously enjoyed, kidnapped Wei Qing, and wanted to kill him privately as retaliation.

His mother drags him before the only mirror in the house in retaliation and upon seeing his visage, Erik mistakes his reflection for that of a horrible monster.

It is later revealed through flashbacks much later in the movie that the senior yakuza is actually both the first boyfriend-and current lover-of the girls ' estranged mother, from whom she was seduced by her husband at a disco during their youth in the 1970s, and with whom she later had an extramarital affair ( in retaliation for her husband's own rampant philandering ) when they met again when he first came to collect her husband's debts, before ultimately abandoning her family.

It is not an entirely happy book, as Mrs. Fink soon becomes jealous of Alicia and, in retaliation, refuses to continue to scrape the algae off her glass.

The prohibition against retaliation or coercion applies broadly to any individual or entity that seeks to prevent an individual from exercising his or her rights or to retaliate against him or her for having exercised those rights ... Any form of retaliation or coercion, including threats, intimidation, or interference, is prohibited if it is intended to interfere.

She was assassinated by her bodyguards in retaliation for ordering Operation Blue Star.

Hannassey, in retaliation, kidnaps Julie and uses her as bait to lure Terrill into an ambush in the narrow canyon leading to Hannassey's home.

The US Supreme Court dealt what many considered a major blow to government whistleblowers when, in the case of Garcetti v. Ceballos, 04-5, 547 US 410, it ruled that government employees did not have protection from retaliation in performance evaluations by their employers under the First Amendment of the Constitution if the alleged speech was produced as part of his / her duties.

A patient is at his or her safest when a health care worker has the right to speak out on the patient's behalf without fear of reprisal or retaliation.

Is he asking to have his chip removed so he can be his old self again and " give her what she deserves " as he says, implying violence of some kind as retaliation for spurning his advances?

" When the magazine was seen in Choctaw County, the Causeys were subjected to brutal economic retaliation by white residents, who tried to coerce Mrs. Causey into recanting her remarks.

Her victimization was rendered as a well-documented retaliation for her support of civil rights and activist groups in the 1960s.

In retaliation, Nancy uses her power to kill Chris.

This unexpected retaliation and steadfast resistance to the hazing is one that he has never encountered from a victim before, and sparks a nearly obsessive fixation with her within Tsukasa.

The Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards in retaliation.

Garner stated that his stepmother punished him by forcing him to wear a dress in public and that he finally engaged in a physical fight with her, knocking her down and choking her to keep her from killing him in retaliation.

In retaliation to the speech, Zia announced death sentences for 54 members of her party at a military court in Lahore headed by Zia himself.

One of her notable military authorizations was military action in Jalalabad of Soviet Afghanistan in retaliation for the Soviet Union's long unconditional support of India, a proxy war in Pakistan, and Pakistan's loss in the 1965 and 1971 wars.

Cannon's retaliation track clowns Charlemagne for one of his interviews with Lil Mama that left her in tears.

Despite Phillip's earlier order that Aboriginal Australians must never be slain, and his insistence that no retaliation be taken to avenge his own non-fatal spearing, Phillip's stance toward Aboriginals changed markedly after the death of his gamekeeper, John MacIntyre.

And while Saul was merciful to his enemies, he was strict with his own people ; when he found out that Avimelech, a kohen, had assisted David with finding food, Saul, in retaliation, killed the rest of the 85 kohanim of the family of Avimelech and the rest of his hometown, Nov. ( Yoma 22b ; Num.

Canada and other countries raised their own tariffs in retaliation after the bill had become law.

They were persuaded to come to his assistance when retaliation was threatened against their own homes.

During the War of 1812, troops stationed at Fort Wellington crossed the frozen river and burned Ogdensburg in retaliation for an American raid further up the river ; the American citizens of Ogdensburg, who were profiting by supplying the British army with food and other necessities, drove out their own American military detachment after the raid so that they could continue doing business with the British army in Prescott.

Emperor Xiaowen, despite his own weakened physical state, then decided to again advance south to react against a retaliation campaign by the Southern Qi general Chen Xianda ( 陳顯達 ).

Pope John Paul II encouraged opposition to the Communist regime in such a way that it would not draw retaliation, becoming ( in a quote from CNN ) " a resilient enemy of Communism and champion of human rights, a powerful preacher and sophisticated intellectual able to defeat Marxists in their own line of dialogue.

In retaliation, the European Union threatened to counter with tariffs of its own on products ranging from Florida oranges to cars produced in Michigan, with each tariff calculated to likewise hurt the President in a key marginal state.

Trade press conjecture, spurred on by SCO Group's own claims, held that this meant the worm was created by a Linux or open source supporter in retaliation for SCO Group's controversial legal actions and public statements against Linux.

Under the WDEA, a discharge is wrongful only if: " it was in retaliation for the employee's refusal to violate public policy or for reporting a violation of public policy ; the discharge was not for good cause and the employee had completed the employer's probationary period of employment ; or the employer violated the express provisions of its own written personnel policy.

While he is the only son of the Don, it becomes obvious he lacks potential for a career in his father's organization, though he tries to kill his own uncle, Junior Soprano, as retaliation for the shooting of his father.

However in 1570 the Queen was excommunicated by the Pope for her own Protestantism and support of Protestant causes, most notably the Dutch Rebellion against Spain ; in retaliation she ended her relative toleration of the Catholic Church.

In retaliation, Viki writes a letter to the Shah to rid the kingdom of Raj, who now taxes the poor for his own pleasure.

Despite the new line-up, many of the themes of the original series continued ; in particular, Songbird's decision to cripple Bullseye in retaliation for the villain crippling the super-hero Jack Flag, Norman Osborn's own struggle for redemption as he claimed, and the growing friendship between Songbird and Radioactive Man.

After destroying America in retaliation for a psychic attempt on their own lives they use the Sun as an incubator for their final metamorphosis into The Many Angled Ones, and ( after casually destroying The Earth in passing ) they ascend to the heavens attempting to gain control of the multiverse.

As it turns out Thackeray is very much alive and has been mining unreported uranium in Australia to make his own nuclear bomb, which he plans to detonate in Hong Kong at the moment the handover takes place in retaliation for his loss of his family's legacy.

She openly pleads for reducing this divide through increased communication and, as a consequence, understanding between employers and workmen and generally through a more human behaviour based on Christian principles, at the same time presenting her own fears of how the poor will eventually act in retaliation to their oppression.

In retaliation, Eric added the insignia of Norway and Denmark to his own coat of arms, and refused Danish requests to remove these symbols.

The fact of being already deceased allows Brás Cubas to sharply criticize the Brazilian society and reflect on his own disillusionment, with no sign of remorse or fear of retaliation.

In retaliation, Masterson decides that since Sumdac refuses to make his Headmasters, he decided to form his own company to make them.

Afterwards, he was fouled by Utah's DeShawn Stevenson in retaliation for his perceived unsportsmanlike behavior, and was later fined by his own team.

* Contentious Influence Tactics: Contentious influence tactics ( e. g., threats, demands, and other negative behaviours ) may be used to attempt to influence others from another group creating cycles of retaliation and influencing the opinions of those within their own group ( e. g., creating bad reputations ).

On August 20, 1864, six-hundred Confederate officers boared the Crescent bound for Morris Island, S. C., " for the purpose I believe of being placed under the fire of the Confederate batteries in retaliation for an equal number of Federal officers who have been placed in the city of Charleston, and are said to be exposed to the shelling of their own guns.

The Black Book of Communism claims that Lenin ordered the seizure of the food peasants had grown for their own subsistence and their seed grain in retaliation for this " sabotage ," leading to widespread peasant revolts.