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Example sentences for: payback

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The press had figured that Pataki would turn his back on Giuliani as a payback for Giuliani's endorsement of Pataki's Democratic opponent, Mario Cuomo, in 1994.
The writer-director of the ultraviolent Mel Gibson movie Payback squirmed uncomfortably in his chair on a dais in a Santa Monica hotel ballroom a few hundred yards from the Pacific Ocean, pondering the question of whether people who make violent movies are morally responsible for inciting real-world violence.
Fischel is also the author of Payback: The Conspiracy To Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial Revolution . Administrators protest that they are only keeping pace with their competitors: UNEXT has already signed on with Columbia, while Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell are considering commercial partners for their own online programs.
9 billion per year, indicating a payback period of slightly over 6 years (assuming no change in the real price of fuel).
Chechnya is payback for Afghanistan, for the first humiliating Chechen war of 1994-96, and for NATO's bombing of Serbia.