Sentence examples for a retaliatory act from inspiring English sources

This particular blow, one imagines, may have been a retaliatory act aimed as much at Fleming as at Rhett.

Perhaps the bomb, Manley suggested, was a "retaliatory act," meant for someone else but mistakenly placed on House's doorstep.

"Instead you carried out a retaliatory act of throwing petrol bombs at the Grimsby Islamic Cultural Centre.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said the arrests were a continuation of the targeting of elected politicians affiliated to Hamas, which it viewed as "a retaliatory act and a form of collective punishment" in breach of the Geneva conventions.

A 50-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with the incident, which police have established was a retaliatory act following a grenade attack on a house in Formby Road, Salford, at 00.50 on Monday morning.

Policemen are fearful of being killed in an ambush or risking harm to their families in a retaliatory act; drug traffickers worry about "being caught by the federal police or losing their territory," explained a sorcerer in a nearby town who would go only by the name El Gato Negro, adding that he often performs animal sacrifices in a cave.

The F.B.I. office in Las Vegas said it received information about an "uncorroborated and nonspecific statement regarding a potential retaliatory act against Las Vegas".

Claiming to be peaceful by nature, the vengeful Mysterons seize control of Black's mind and declare a "war of nerves" against Earth, stating that their first retaliatory act for the attack on their settlement will be the assassination World President.

This retaliatory act of violence, which he never attempted to defend, merely added to his legend.

The incident garnered significant media attention, and both FIRE and the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties condemned SWC's retaliatory act in letters to President Chopra.

Unfortunately, the acts which give rise to retaliation are all too often petty slights, such as a mayor not endorsing a candidate, while the retaliatory acts are great (and often provoke further retaliation in kind, leading to escalating conflicts with no intention or hope of being resolved).