Sentence examples for appearance of retaliation from inspiring English sources

The chief nuclear officer of Pacific Gas and Electric, Gregory Rueger, said the company's need to protect public safety conflicted with its need to avoid the appearance of retaliation, but that the former was more important.

So when Brad Thompson hit the Brewers first baseman and the most valuable player candidate Prince Fielder in the second inning Wednesday night with two on and first base open, the appearance of retaliation was so obvious that the umpire Tom Hallion warned both benches.

In a sign that the anti-Morsi backlash may have overreached, a Mubarak-appointed prosecutor general, Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, who had been dismissed by Mr. Morsi and was among those reinstated to his office on Thursday, resigned less than 24 hours later, apparently sensitive to the appearance of engaging in political retaliation.

They show that the threat of retaliation decreases the rate of conflict.

The appearance of the attacks matches the retaliation that Mr Wolfowitz threatened when the facts about Mr Wolfowitz's arrangements for his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, began to emerge.

I'm scared of retaliation.

"People are afraid of retaliation".

The fear of retaliation is well grounded.

Patton talked about how victims of sexual assault in the military "perceive retaliation in the form of social retaliation, leadership retaliation, again, perceiving different forms of retaliation".

Fears of retaliation against immigrants followed.

Any threat of retaliation seems unlikely.