Sentence examples for a war of retaliation from inspiring English sources

It was a war of retaliation and pursuit.

Adolescent absolutism, opposed to all ethnic profiling or a war of retaliation, cannot solve the complex problems facing American leaders.

In Cairo, the Maspero Youth Union rights group accused the Brotherhood movement of "waging a war of retaliation".

North Korea will also wage a "pan-national holy war of retaliation to blow away" the South Korean government, said a statement from the North's highest ruling agency, the National Defense Commission, which is headed by the national leader, Kim Jong-il.

"We will start a pan-national holy war of retaliation to blow away the den of South Korean authorities, including the presidential Blue House, who have led and supported the drawling up of this plan," it said.

No doubt the goal is to say in the eventual memoirs that the invasion of Iraq was retaliation and not a war of choice.

This has produced a war of a thousand cuts that is enraging India, wearing its patience thin and prompting some Indian officials to threaten stronger retaliation.

They had claimed to have been "soldiers of Allah" fighting a war in retaliation for British foreign policy.

In early 2013 Kim appeared to threaten nuclear war, and was greeted by a pledge of retaliation from the South.

Earlier this year the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un threatened nuclear war, and was greeted by a pledge of retaliation from the South.

The attack was the only major event in what was supposed to be a campaign of retaliation against ports that supported Patriot activities in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.