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It is good to get your retaliation in first.
It's not always as smart as it sounds to get your retaliation in first.
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This is known as getting your retaliation in first.
The spooks have clearly been listening to Willie John McBride, the Irish rugby forward who famously believed in "getting your retaliation in first".
But prevenge could also be a way of getting your retaliation in first, a pre-emptive payback for all the bad things that each victim is presumed capable of doing.
This is what is known in rugby circles as "getting your retaliation in first" and the result is what can only be described as "ethics theatre", much like the security theatre that goes on at airports.
In this context it is, perhaps, no surprise that the work was paid for in part by America's air force and that the authors note delicately that their program might come in useful for "active defence"—or, as one of Britain's rugby coaches once put it, "getting your retaliations in first".
Economic policymakers need to get their retaliation in early.
"If WPP does well, I do well," says its chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell, attempting to get his retaliation in early.
Military-trained Captain Marvel wants to use these apocalyptic tip-offs to get some retaliation in first, Minority Report-style.
If the two sides ignore this, the case goes to court.Ryanair is nothing if not feisty, though, and indeed has managed to get its retaliation in first.
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