Sentence examples for brutal retaliation from inspiring English sources

Brutal retaliation followed, as the Americans slaughtered many Fijians and destroyed their villages.

Brutal retaliation from the government-backed Janjaweed militia followed, with thousands of people killed and villages torched.

A new conflict arose in 390 when, following the murder of one of his generals in Thessalonica, Theodosius issued an order for brutal retaliation.

But how did the US let its foreign policy become hostage to a strategy of pre-emptive war and brutal retaliation?

In Syria's other cities, residents have frequently been angered by the tendency of rebel fighters to occupy a neighborhood and then attack government troops before abruptly withdrawing and leaving civilians to bear the brunt of the army's brutal retaliation.

Particularly frightening was the targeting of Christians in the south and the killing of a Coptic priest in Sinai in brutal retaliation for the Copts' support of the army's removal of Morsi.

A CRITIC AT LARGE about writer Olive Schreiner and her work, focussing mainly on "The Story of an African Farm," published in 1883... Tells about a long political allegory she completed in 1896 based on Cecil Rhodes' most recent and brutal retaliations against uprisings of the Matabele and the Mashona, long residents of the state that was to become Rhodesia.

Labor leaders said their members quickly joined the demonstrations, which grew violent in the face of increasingly brutal police retaliation.

Protests against the government on this in Khartoum have been met with brutal police retaliation in the past weeks, including scores of arrests.

But brutal government retaliation was a genuine fear: "Tsvangirai believed the army wouldn't hesitate to shoot a lot of people.

Tension between Milorg and SOE had risen as a result of British pinprick commando raids on Norwegian targets, which prompted brutal Nazi retaliation.