1.   The death of a child is commonly seen by members of the tribe as divine punishment.

2.   He suggested that the civil war had been a divine punishment.

3.   And Isaac Cline, along with his brother and children and wife, suffered their own form of divine punishment.

4.   He had been ploughing through its interminable ramblings about horsemen and brides, scrolls and seals, beasts and Babylon, demon armies and divine punishments.

5.   The potential for divine punishment was declared emphatically.

6.   The precipitating event was a gay-rights parade at which Higgins railed that he was God and that AIDS was a form of divine punishment.

7.   This belief in a divine punishment after death coincides with results of a survey that shows heated anger at injustice unpunished in the here and now.

8.   One had even claimed that they were part of divine punishment following the dismissal of a senior religious official!

9.   Parents held a Hindu ceremony last week in the southern town of Galle, seeking divine punishment for those who had corrupted their children.