Whittam dismissed any notion that retaliation for any perceived wrongdoing was a defence morally or in law and pointed out that Rigby had been dressed in civilian clothes.
Its new owner, Entergy Corporation, displays incomprehensible arrogance in the face of the enemy's warnings that retaliation for our attacks on its sacred land would bring a Hiroshima upon us.
And in the political shadows in Westminster and Washington, they have moved to put cyberspace more formally into the military sphere, so that those responsible for the attacks understand that retaliation is now part of the game.
Canada described U.S. duties on Canadian softwood lumber shipments as "obscene" but stopped short of hinting at any tit-for-tat retaliation that might jeopardize the world's richest trading relationship or the two countries' close political and military co-operation.
And they're afraid there might be retaliation for that.
In traditional Islamic societies, the families of a murder victim had the right to eye-for-an-eye retaliation that remains codified in the modern Iranian legal system.
Wasn't that retaliation for filing the charge, which is against the law?
Paul Wolfowitz argued "very strongly" at that meeting for retaliation that included Iraq.
Psychologists consulted by the I.D.F., who had profiled Assad for years, argued that Syrian retaliation might be avoided if Israel did not corner the President by publicly claiming credit for a strike, thus preserving for Assad what Israeli security officials called a "zone of denial".
Mr. Thompson sued under a federal law that prohibits retaliation for the filing of an employment discrimination claim.
