Sentence examples for capacity for retaliation from inspiring English sources

Mr. Greenberg left A.I.G. with a greater capacity for retaliation than the typical ousted C.E.O.

Given what it saw as the Soviet capacity for retaliation, the United States thought it unlikely that any president would use nuclear weapons first, and it was hard to see how a credible deterrent could be fashioned out of an incredible nuclear threat.

Mr. Bush suggested that missile defenses would be a deterrent the same way that an overwhelming capacity for nuclear retaliation once was with the Soviet Union.

Until reliable missile defenses can be mounted without wrecking arms control, Washington should continue to meet threats from North Korea and Iran the way it met missile threats from Russia during the cold war -- through America's capacity for devastating retaliation and efforts to restrain the spread of nuclear materials and missile technology.

She sued for retaliation.

Watch for retaliation there.

Taking credit means asking for retaliation.

So she did something terrible, for retaliation, for revenge.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia also expressed support for retaliation.

Beckham was sent off for retaliation against Diego Simeone.

Our grief is not a cry for retaliation.