Sentence examples for disproportionate retaliation from inspiring English sources
Israel's disproportionate retaliation in Gaza is increasingly recognised as both brutal and, in all likelihood, ultimately futile.
Haaretz's Yoav Stern claims Hezbollah is trying to push the boundaries of what damage Israel will accept without launching a disproportionate retaliation.
That fear not only provides the pretext for brutal and disproportionate retaliation, but it actively builds public support for that retaliation.
We also condemn Israel's disproportionate retaliation against Gazan civilians, which is not only prohibited by the Geneva Conventions but has proved equally futile in either ending the rocket attacks or in diverting Gazan's anger from those punishing them, onto Hamas.
Early in season one, in a clear rebuke to Bill Clinton's promiscuous 1998 missile strikes on Sudan and Afghanistan, Bartlet allows himself to be talked out of a disproportionate retaliation to a Syrian-sponsored terror attack.
Mr. Rabin told me shortly before he was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli extremist that Israel, while pursuing peace, must never play into the hands of Palestinian terrorists, who would try to sabotage the talks with attacks intended to provoke disproportionate retaliation.
The unlawfully armed group, based in south Lebanon, had kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, and this led to Israel's disproportionate and heavy-handed retaliation against the entire country.
Jacques Chirac, the French president, said Israeli retaliation was "completely disproportionate" and Hizbullah was "irresponsible".
First, a threat of massive military retaliation might seem a disproportionate response to political rhetoric, however threatening.
And let's be honest, when faced with a swarm of Asian Giant Hornets, atomic retaliation wouldn't even seem that disproportionate.
"There's nothing to touch them". Hague fell out with CFI after describing Israel's 2006 attack on Lebanon – in retaliation for a Hezbollah raid – as "disproportionate" and allegedly faced threats to withdraw funding from Lord Kalms, a major Tory donor and CFI member, the film reports.
