Sentence examples for of a retaliation from inspiring English sources

Neighbors speculated that he was the unintended target of a retaliation shooting.

But Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and General Yaalon have all refused to rule out the possibility of a retaliation should Iraq strike.

The residency also formed out of a retaliation to the application fee (£25) for New Contemporaries, so I'm here during their opening.

Yes, we've seen the occasional rocket firing from Gaza in the past months, but that has only yielded a tired yawn of a retaliation.

The scuffles, in which four people were stabbed, also involved fans from other clubs and were viewed by the media as part of a retaliation for the killing of two Leeds United fans by Galatasaray supporters the month before.

Iranian leaders angrily denounced the report as a pretext for a military attack, and warned of a massive retaliation.

The possibility of a Democratic retaliation — the Party's own attempt at all-out war — is real.

He said no one would dare speak out against the Tigers for dread of a severe retaliation.

"It's likely that he carried out this crazy gesture as a sort of retaliation, a sort of vendetta," he said.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit on the employees' behalf, arguing that they were victims of an "unlawful retaliation".

I imagined that these arrests were a kind of retaliation, a general warning to Chinese academics everywhere.