Sentence examples for of any retaliation from inspiring English sources
"We are going to bear the brunt of any retaliation from Iran," said another senior military officer.
The British were concerned about the "proportionality", in the legal sense of the word, of any retaliation that might happen in response to an aircraft being shot down.
"We had a small run-up at the end of last week in anticipation of any retaliation," said John Kilduff, senior vice president of energy risk management at Fimat, the commodities trading arm of Société Générale.
While there would be no way of avoiding a certain amount of damage on the home front, he said, alluding to widespread fears of rockets and missiles raining down on Israel from Gaza and Lebanon as part of any retaliation, there would not even be 500 dead if everyone stayed in their homes.
Dr. Steven Galson, director of the F.D.A.'s center for drug evaluation and research, began the advisory meeting on Wednesday by stating that "it goes without saying that all F.D.A. staff are free to make any presentation they wish to make without fear of any retaliation".
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck had said last week that the department would wait to release the names until it could be sure that the officers were not in danger of any retaliation.
Senator John B. Breaux, Democrat of Louisiana, said any retaliation against Mr. Jeffords would have to be discreet to avoid alienating moderate senators essential to the slim Republican majority.
It is unclear what position the Joint Chiefs of Staff have taken on the scope of any possible retaliation.
The group can ill afford to open another military front or to lose the dwindling support it has among some Lebanese; more important, its Shiite constituency in southern Lebanon would bear the brunt of any Israeli retaliation.
The aim was to decapitate the leadership of the primary anti-Taliban resistance, they say, therefore depriving the Bush administration of a potential ally in any retaliation.
The agent requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation.
