The phrase "as a retaliation for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an action taken in response to a perceived wrong or offense.
Example: "The company decided to cut ties with the supplier as a retaliation for their failure to meet the contract terms."
Alternatives: "in response to" or "as a response to".
Taliban commanders say they are intensifying the urban attacks as a retaliation for increased airstrikes on their areas.
This was taken as a retaliation for the massacre at Hebron, where Baruch Goldstein gunned down at least twenty-nine Muslims at their prayers.
His next words, coming from the man who started the Iraq War as a retaliation for the 9/11 attacks, were criticised as hypocritical by some observers.
The capture of the Algerian gas site was claimed by the Islamist splinter group, Mouwaghina Bi Dam ("Those Who Sign in Blood") as a retaliation for French intervention in Mali.
Israel described the Feb. 8 attacks on the power plants, which cut Lebanon's electricity supply in half and wounded 20 Lebanese civilians, as a retaliation for intensified Hezbollah attacks on Israeli forces.
In 2016, India claimed to have carried out a small-scale incursion as a retaliation for an armed attack on an Indian military camp in the border town of Uri.
"This was probably as much a result of Cobb's crowding the plate as it was a retaliation for his racist remarks," is the explanation the museum provides from a Yellowhorse biography, "60 Feet Six Inches and Other Distances from Home" by Todd Fuller.
The scuffles, in which four people were stabbed, also involved fans from other clubs and were viewed by the media as part of a retaliation for the killing of two Leeds United fans by Galatasaray supporters the month before.
"We perceive [the arrests] as a retaliation and persecution for documenting the truth," they said.
The monitoring group said on Friday that it was aware of Isis crucifying 17 young men in the space of 48 hours, and that it came as a direct retaliation for the deaths of 12 Syrian, Iraqi and Algerian jihadists.
Mr. Schundler's spokesman defended last week's news release, meanwhile, as a retaliation-in-kind for what he called a reckless distortion by Mr. McGreevey: that Mr. Schundler "wants people to be carrying guns into supermarkets, high school football games and churches," said Bill Guhl, the spokesman.
