Sentence examples for act of retaliatory from inspiring English sources

What we have witnessed in the past few days, in a conflict that has seen residential areas targeted by bombs, missiles and naval gunfire, is a conflict of limited and murky ambition – war as an act of retaliatory grandstanding and violence as a form of negotiation.

Set in a remote Protestant village of northern Germany in 1913, the film is about an outwardly placid rural community which is in fact repressive and plagued with anonymous acts of retaliatory malice and spite.

Footballers generally operate a law of omerta on such matters, and Zidane is a reluctant talker at the best of times, so we may never be really sure what Materazzi did or said that provoked him into one of the acts of retaliatory violence that have studded his otherwise brilliant passage through the game.

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

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

Cuba called this "an irrational act of revenge", but announced no retaliatory measures.

In 1930, just when trade was needed more than ever to keep economies going, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff act, ignoring formal protests by more than 30 countries, sharply raising tariff barriers and triggering a worldwide spate of retaliatory protectionist measures.

France's decision to launch retaliatory airstrikes was an act of "self-defence", French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, said, speaking on the first day of the G20 summit in Turkey.

Threats of retaliatory tariffs when the W.T.O.

A series of retaliatory attacks followed.

A series of retaliatory actions by other countries followed.