Sentence examples for deadly retaliation from inspiring English sources

Just over three weeks ago, a Boko Haram bomb attack that killed a soldier set off deadly retaliation from enraged security forces.

Their most cogent argument, buttressed by Saddam Hussein's past behavior when faced by superior force, is that his weapons of mass destruction will not be used against America because the Iraqi leader knows that the result will be deadly retaliation.

Witnesses said the forces had fired with little or no provocation, but government spokesmen charged Wednesday that the Islamists had deliberately sought to instigate the deadly retaliation for propaganda purposes — "To mark this as 'The army is trying to kill civilians,' " one said.

Iranian nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles could kill, but their dispatchers would be identified immediately and a deadly retaliation would follow.

Wednesday's extraordinary turn put into sharp relief the wrenching national debate over race and policing, after a month of deadly shootings of black men and deadly retaliations against police officers around the nation.

Responding to TTP's retaliatory attacks, Pakistan has mounted deadliest counter-retaliation on TTP; first removing the moratorium on executions of terrorists by the special order, and secondly establishing military courts commissions (roughly based on Gitmo).

The deadly shooting and retaliation, along with the firing of two rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, which caused no casualties, marked another surge of violence in more than 16 months of deadly conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

That strike came in retaliation for a deadly bomb attack on a German disco blamed on Libya.

Israel has launched a series of air strikes in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the deadly shooting of an Israeli civilian, killing at least two people, including a young girl, and wounding nine, Hamas officials said.

In April, the U.S. conducted its first military strike against the Syrian government, in retaliation for a deadly chemical weapon attack on an opposition-held area.

The U.S. launched more than 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield in retaliation for a deadly chemical weapon attack earlier this week.