Sentence examples for fierce retaliation from inspiring English sources

His comments drew fierce retaliation from Ed Miliband, who said people wouldn't take kindly "to being told how to vote by someone who doesn't pay his taxes".

They cite the total absence of any political dissent, fierce retaliation against those who do speak out, media censorship and a cult of personality surrounding the president.

Any attack on Iran, whether justified or not, will provoke fierce retaliation.

At the same time, Obama also wants to galvanize support among leaders in the Middle East and is mindful that they worry about how a fierce retaliation might affect their citizens being held hostage by the Islamic State.

Fearing fierce retaliation for a devastating nightclub bombing, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat offered his version Saturday of a cease-fire aimed at stilling eight months of bloody Mideast strife.

For decades, such fierce, unflinching retaliation has been at the core of Israel's security strategy.

Palestinian officials, bracing for a fierce Israeli retaliation after the summit meeting ends, said that Israel itself brought on the shooting and bombing attacks.

As of today, the administration was banking on Mr. Arafat's being scared into restoring calm by the high possibility of a fierce Israeli retaliation.

With the increasing familiarity of such attacks comes the increasing familiarity of the reaction: the state of emergency, the military in the streets, the closing of the borders, the call for harder, fiercer, more unrelenting retaliation.

As he wrote in his book, "I believed in fierce competition and swift retaliation for mistreatment".

Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza City and missiles were fired for a second day at Yasir Arafat's compound in Ramallah as the Israeli Army kept up a fierce offensive today in retaliation for the killing of six Israeli soldiers in the West Bank on Tuesday.