Sentence examples for amount to retaliation from inspiring English sources

Ron Paul responded to the Paris murders not by shifting to the safer subject of immigration, but by suggesting that the attacks may amount to retaliation for French foreign policy in Libya and Algeria.

Three families whose daughters were in the photographs refused to participate and instead filed suit to block the charges, which they said would amount to retaliation for that refusal.

Moreover, God's justice does not amount to retaliation.

The union says the dismissals mostly involved banquet workers and amounted to retaliation against union supporters.

Chief executive Louis Gallois said Beijing's refusal to allow Hong Kong Airlines to complete a $4bn order for the A380 super-jumbos amounted to "retaliation measures" over the policy, which came into force at the beginning of the year.

The labor board's general counsel claimed that the move amounted to retaliation against Boeing's unionized workers in Washington for having gone on strike in the past.

"We expect that firing a close family member" amounts to unlawful retaliation, Justice Scalia wrote, while "inflicting a milder reprisal on a mere acquaintance will almost never do so, but beyond that we are reluctant to generalize".

A few months later, acting on complaints from agents, the equal opportunity agency declared that requiring an employee to sign away rights to keep a job amounted to "unlawful retaliation".

The Labor Department filed a motion to have Greenwell temporarily reinstated on the job, arguing that his firing amounted to illegal retaliation under mining law.

In early 2010, Colorado Springs told Bruce that it would charge him $40,000 to restart water service at seven of his rental properties, a charge that Bruce said amounted to political retaliation, but that city staff justified by noting of the properties had been abandoned.

And the primary role of nuclear weapons would henceforth be to deter nuclear war: to indicate to American adversaries (namely, the Soviet Union) that any attack would engender overwhelming retaliation and hence amount to national suicide.