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Citing a little known rule of international law known as "belligerent reprisal," which holds that a country can suspend its arms control commitments if it is attacked by another country in violation of international law, the administration warned that it would not limit its retaliatory options if it was attacked by chemical or germ weapons.

China has understandable concerns about developments that could blunt its retaliatory capacity.

Israel continued its retaliatory strikes today, bombing the Palestinian Authority's police headquarters.

He made the statement in a bitter speech to the Knesset (Parliament) on yesterday's Security Council resolution condemning Israel for its retaliatory raid on Syrian positions along the Sea of Galilee last month.

authority for its sanctions and not pushing ahead with them immediately, as the United States did early last year in its retaliatory move against European banana import rules, Mr. Gooch said: "Two wrongs don't make a right.

There has been considerable discussion about how China might respond to a missile defense program and speculation that China might expand its projected arsenal of DF-31 and DF-41 missiles to be sure to maintain its retaliatory punch.

While the EU has set a deadline for its own retaliatory measures, other countries have urged caution.

But as it happens, and for what it's worth, this week we have a movie about violence and the state; how the state reacts to it, and how it endorses retaliatory violence of its own.

The Pentagon has set up Plan X supposedly to respond to cyber attacks by launching cyber assaults of its own as retaliatory strikes.

"They say it's retaliatory.

Critics, however, portray it as retaliatory.