Sentence examples for be a retaliation from inspiring English sources

The CIA's station chief in Pakistan had his identity blown, which some reckoned to be a retaliation.

"This seems to me to be a retaliation in part for standing side by side with Israel and standing out on China.

The bomb in Baghdad appears to be a retaliation by Islamic State (Isis) for the loss of the third battle of Falluja.

But residents here say that the shooting could be a retaliation for the shooting of a member of the rival Crips gang in which the wrong person was shot, or maybe a gang initiation rite.

In an unrelated attack last weekend, another man, Quintez Waller, was shot and killed early Sunday morning on Smith Street in what appeared to be a retaliation for an earlier shooting.

Not far away, Sgt. George Tavares circled the neighborhood in an unmarked police car, and later, officers stood sentry on street corners, prepared for violence by a local gang, Addicted to Cash, known on the streets as A.T.C. "Our intelligence suggests there could be a retaliation," Sergeant Tavares said.

The tariffs are a retaliation.

It is believed the attack was a retaliation against US military action in Muslim countries.

The corpses thrown under the Millennium Arches in November were a retaliation.

One senior official in Ankara, Turkey's capital, told Reuters they believed the attack was a "retaliation for the Turkish government's efforts to fight terrorism".

"We are looking at whether this could have been a retaliation for previous shootings," Andrew Holmes, a community organiser, said on Monday morning.