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retaliatory example sentences
retaliatory
1. That alone is sufficient justification for retaliatory action
2. The enemy’s retaliatory raid would be sooner rather than later
3. The Pentagon was about evenly divided on whether or not the two communist powers would likely launch retaliatory attacks
4. You will comply or massive retaliatory force will be used against you, not, as would be proper, to protect you
5. Helgberg had directed these retaliatory actions in Larissa and the surrounding areas until the Resistance killed him
6. Paul knew this could be an issue and figured an attack or two on Zaire may be needed to stem the retaliatory action of the Hutu, even before it happened
7. I see the need to size the services to fit the mission of nuke tracking and interdiction, survivable strategic nuclear retaliatory force, defense of the homeland, allocation of combat troops to UN missions, eyes and ears intelligence, reserve forces for disaster assistance, both here and abroad, and other missions TBD
8. By initiating their air attacks against Vietnam from Chinese bases, the Soviets marked themselves for retaliatory strikes
9. The two agents didn’t care much about who they would kill tonight, as long as enough Russians were left alive afterwards to launch a retaliatory attack on the ISIS fighters
10. We were discussing here about the possible retaliatory measures against the Soviets after their torpedoing of the IRWIN
11. If some other nation tries to interfere with the mandate of our force or assists someone attacking us, then it will expose its forces around Palestine to retaliatory strikes
12. However, I don’t intend to be caught flat-footed in the next few hours by a retaliatory air attack by Arab air forces
13. Up to a point, we may just be helped by their own enemies on the opposing side of the political divide, through tit-for-tat retaliatory actions, if they can be made to believe that the opposition is carrying out the offensive
14. S tasted the madness that is the Islamic fundamentalism on 9/11, one Western social scientist wondered what it might take the Jews and the Hindus to live in the Muslim surroundings! Why it is for the Indian Musalmans to think whether that image is okay with them; they might as well ask themselves the valid question - instead of leading a harmonious life in the Indian society, how come they provoke the disinterested, if not docile, Hindu majority into a retaliatory mode? Well, the Musalmans, obsessed as they are with growing beards and wearing burkas, so as to keep their Islamic identity intact, don’t seem to care two hoots for what others think about their separatist attitudes
15. Kierd then launched a retaliatory expedition and, last we heard, were still in the middle of a protracted siege of Narad�s capital
16. Olin stood speechless as he realized that all of the boys, along with Paddy, Mary and the doctor, had been party to a retaliatory joke upon Zygmunt
17. “The sergeant had no retaliatory offenses
18. Being a lawyer, he planned to acquire the shop, which was government owned, without bribing the officials in charge thus leaving me exposed to retaliatory legal moves from their side
19. The negroes, frightened and sullen, muttered of Yankees should the guilty parties be found and of a concerted uprising against the retaliatory house burnings
20. They ought not to lead to hostility; they are merely retaliatory
21. We have remonstrated, we have appealed to the justice, to the interest, of the two great contending powers of Europe; every effort proved abortive; our calls for justice were drowned in the declaration that their measures were merely retaliatory, and not intended to interfere with neutral rights; thus, sir, the matter rested, when specific propositions were submitted to each
22. Although it was declared that the Orders in Council were retaliatory on France for her decrees, it was also declared, and in the orders themselves, that, owing to the superiority of the British navy, by which the fleets of France and her allies were confined within their own ports, the French decrees were considered only as empty threats
23. I should be extremely sorry that the imprudent act of any officer should involve consequences so particularly severe as the present instance must naturally produce, if repeated; and although it is very much my wish, during the continuance of the differences existing between the two countries, to adopt every measure that might render the effect of war less rigorous, yet, in another point of view, the conviction of the duty I owe my country would, in the event of such grievances as I have already stated being continued, not admit of any hesitation in retaliatory decisions; but as I am strongly persuaded of the high liberality of your sentiments, and that the act complained of has originated entirely with the officer who committed it, and that it will be as censurable in your consideration as it deserves, I rely upon your taking such steps as will prevent a recurrence of conduct so extremely reprehensible in every shape
24. So, again, as to the origin of our restrictive system; it cannot be forgotten that the friends and abettors of those measures uniformly professed that they were adopted as retaliatory for the Orders in Council
25. The war was declared because Great Britain arrogated to herself the pretension of regulating foreign trade, under the delusive name of retaliatory Orders in Council—a pretension by which she undertook to proclaim to American enterprise, "Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther
26. From this state of things, it was not difficult to conjecture that the period was not distant when Great Britain must become convinced of the inefficiency of the Orders in Council, so far as respected their retaliatory object on her enemy
