Hugo and the Bully Frogs by Francesca Simon and Caroline Jayne Church Davidd and Charles, £4.99, 3-7) is a gentle, light-hearted tale, suggesting that neither suffering in silence nor physical retaliation need be the only options.
Or if retaliation was needed, why choose loudspeakers – a known red rag to the North, and an easy target for pot-shots?
Lincoln's responses to what Douglass identified as his primary concerns — the inequitable pay for black soldiers, the need for retaliation against Confederate policies toward black troops and the need for policies guaranteeing promotion for meritorious service by black troops — cannot have been immediately reassuring to the abolitionist.
New Era management denied any retaliation, saying that it needed to cut costs to compete with giants like Nike and Reebok, which rely heavily on low-wage plants in Asia.
But, some of the time this truth telling came out in anger, I think in retaliation of wanting (or needing) to shut that person back down as we feel so shut down by their question or statement.
Administration officials said that the statement, like the policy toward Israeli retaliations, underscored the need not to provoke animosity in the Arab world.
"We don't want retaliation".
The moral in this story is not moral at all, but a cold, stark lesson to those who wield power and hope to preserve it: if you can tough it out, come what may, you might outlast your enemies — and need not fear retaliation from a newly hesitant United States and NATO.
The fear of retaliation from perpetrators, and a need to keep their sexuality secret, were the major factors for victims' reluctance to report homophobic attacks to police.
By incorporating the same burdens of proof needed to show retaliation that have been included in virtually every public- and private-sector whistleblower law passed since 1989, including protections for Defense Department contractors and Department of Energy employees and contractors, the bill ensures that service members have a fair chance to prove that reprisal has in fact occurred.
