Sentence examples for a retaliation on from inspiring English sources

It's often a retaliation on the part of someone that feels they have been shafted".

This savage ingratitude for the supposed blessings of British rule provoked a retaliation on a far greater scale, which shocked public opinion "at home" as much as the mutiny itself.

While some could read that as a violation on the part of Spotify, which can turn off and turn on in-app purchases without update approval, others might consider this latest update rejection as a retaliation on the part of Apple.

Taliban commanders say they are intensifying the urban attacks as a retaliation for increased airstrikes on their areas.

The defense secretary's speech was aimed at a Europe where the war, a retaliation for the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, that was supposed to be over in months, has become more and more unpopular.

The Times reported: "The defense secretary's speech was aimed at a Europe where the war, a retaliation for the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, that was supposed to be over in months, has become more and more unpopular".

In 2016, India claimed to have carried out a small-scale incursion as a retaliation for an armed attack on an Indian military camp in the border town of Uri.

Israel described the Feb. 8 attacks on the power plants, which cut Lebanon's electricity supply in half and wounded 20 Lebanese civilians, as a retaliation for intensified Hezbollah attacks on Israeli forces.

REFERENCE: "Righting a Wrong: Retaliation on a Voodoo Doll Symbolizing an Abusive Supervisor Restores Justice," Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas J. Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, D. Lance Ferris, and Lisa M. Keeping, The Leadership Quarterly, February 2018.

The subsequent massacre in Guadalajara looked like a Zeta retaliation on Sinaloa turf.

But just as the bombing of Libya seems to have curbed Qaddafi, the projection of power in the Persian Gulf, including a measured retaliation (on October 19th, the day of the stock-market crash) for an Iranian attack on an American-flagged tanker, seems to have curbed Iran's appetite for messing with us.