Sentence examples for plausible retaliation from inspiring English sources
What this means for the Democrats is that, as a consistent strategy, (1) they have to offer something that Republicans want as a means to induce cooperation, and (2) they have to have plausible retaliation strategies if cooperation does not happen.
But Kanti Bajpai, an expert in India-China relations at the National University of Singapore (NUS), points out that this largely ignored another plausible explanation: tit-for-tat retaliation for India's refusal to allow a Chinese diplomat to fulfil a speaking engagement in a troubled north-eastern state, Manipur.On the Chinese side, too, the press is not uniformly friendly.
Laundering lawsuits in this manner not only brings a measure of "plausible deniability," but also insulates the sponsoring business from retaliation, or reputational damage (since a patent troll's reputation is already at rock-bottom).
The legitimacy of that retaliation will depend heavily on whether the U.S. national security claim is plausible.
Yet a year and a half into this presidency, with increasing levels of protection and retaliation afflicting the American economy, the promises of impending success seem ever less plausible.
Retaliation from Iran for shooting down one of its passenger jets by the Americans in July 1988 remains a distinctly plausible motive.
She sued for retaliation.
They also fear retaliation.
