Sentence examples for retaliation might be from inspiring English sources

But they said the system was so broken that any federal retaliation might be an empty threat.

Clemens had sent word to Estes before the game that he understood that retaliation might be coming, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported yesterday.

According to aides, after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Biden agreed with the argument that the threat of American retaliation might be insufficient to protect the country.

Michel Samaha, a veteran Lebanese Christian politician and former cabinet minister in Beirut, told me that the Iranian retaliation might be focussed on exposed oil and gas fields in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.

Psychologists consulted by the I.D.F., who had profiled Assad for years, argued that Syrian retaliation might be avoided if Israel did not corner the President by publicly claiming credit for a strike, thus preserving for Assad what Israeli security officials called a "zone of denial".

Oil traders are speculating that one form of retaliation might be to close the Straits of Hormuz, a 21-mile wide passage separating the Persian Gulf from the Arabian Sea.

"I fear for his family, and what kind of retaliation there might be against them".

Yet letters of marque and reprisal are the closest 18th-century analogue to the methods of retaliation that might be used in the low intensity conflicts that the War Powers Act sought to regulate.

Gentile suggested familiarising yourself with the company's HR policies, to see if there's an anti-retaliation section that might be useful.

And they're afraid there might be retaliation for that.

The WikiLeaks Web site has been shut down by unidentified hackers in recent days, leading to speculation that it might be retaliation for the e-mail leaks.