Government employees who hold "sensitive" positions are acutely susceptible to retaliation as well.
In a nod to the dissenting states, Judge Kollar-Kotelly ordered Microsoft to refrain from "threatening" retaliation as well.
Failure would raise the spectre of fresh US tariff action and potential Chinese retaliation as early as March.
It also looks at legal provisions protecting employee-whistleblowers from retaliation, as well as broader issues of combating corruption and promoting business integrity.
"I know that many of you are deeply concerned about retaliation, as am I," he wrote in a note to staff.
Whistleblower advocates are skeptical of such in-house offices, considering them Trojan horses used to identify whistleblowers for retaliation as much as protect them.
Israeli doctrine eschews the principle of proportionality in favour of massive retaliation, as has been amply demonstrated in Lebanon and Gaza.
Likewise, government could moderate globalization of trade while avoiding protectionist tariff policies that could create trade war provoking disastrous retaliation – as happened with the 1930 Smoot Hawley Tariff Act, which exacerbated already high US tariffs.
This did not stop him, in the early 1980s, from defending the Nato decision to deploy Pershing and cruise missiles in Germany in spite of Soviet threats of retaliation as well as determined domestic German hostility.
A new bill sponsored by Ms Tsongas and under consideration in Congress aims to curb retaliation, as well as increasing support for assaulted men.But most victims never speak out: fewer than two in ten, according to Greg Jacob, policy director at the Service Women's Action Network (SWAN), an advocacy group.
The orders in council were Perceval's retaliation: as well as banning trade with France and its allies, they forbade neutral nations to trade with France, and gave the British navy the pretended right to board all neutral ships in search of goods destined for France.
