By the night of the caucuses, his efforts toward taking the high road had completely evaporated: his concession speech was marked by threats of retaliation against Romney as the campaign moved to New Hampshire and South Carolina.
On 10 August, Saraiva informed Aguirre that the Brazilian military commanders would receive orders to begin retaliation, marking the beginning of the war.
Earlier, Hamas militants fired a more powerful rocket from Gaza into Israel, injuring no one but drawing new warnings of retaliation for what Israeli officials consider a marked escalation in the fighting.
One South Sudan rights researcher who spoke anonymously for fear of retaliation said the Unity state counter-offensives were marked by "a lot of abduction accompanying the rape cases", adding that Mayom was the key destination for those abducted.
The Beijing hostage affair was primarily marked by civility, carefully calibrated to force concessions without prompting retaliation.
Mr. Murphy said the committee believed that Mr. Feng's death marked the first time a journalist had been killed in China in retaliation for his reporting.
This weekend's strikes on Syria – in which the US, France and Britain launched 105 missiles targeting three chemical weapons facilities in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack in Douma on 7 April – marked a new phase in Macron's presidency.
In immediate retaliation, Israel destroyed about 40 homes in Rafah refugee camp in Gaza, making hundreds homeless.The Hamas attack marked a serious breach in the ceasefire declared by Yasser Arafat on December 16th.
The deadly shooting and retaliation, along with the firing of two rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, which caused no casualties, marked another surge of violence in more than 16 months of deadly conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
While the announcement of the EU-Airbus retaliation list might mark a welcome return to a more orderly approach to trade disputes, it also represents a failure of negotiation.
Deciding to implement the next round of sanctions would mark a major escalation and entail Russian retaliation, hurting weak European economies.
