Sentence examples for retaliation once from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush suggested that missile defenses would be a deterrent the same way that an overwhelming capacity for nuclear retaliation once was with the Soviet Union.

Several scientists, federal union officials and public watchdog groups have expressed concern that these individuals could be targeted for retaliation once Trump takes office.

But the diplomatic strategists count missilesnot as instruments of destruction but as instruments of deterrence They must assume we will never strike until we have been struck, and therefore they must count the missiles we'd have available for retaliation once a war had been launched.

Although counterterrorism experts predicted significant retaliation once the government was confident that it knew who was responsible for the attacks, military officials said a priority today was the defense of the United States against further attacks, even as emergency crews searched for survivors inside a gutted wedge of the Pentagon facing west toward Arlington National Cemetery.

It could cause a lag between the time that they get blocked and when they realize it — but the scenario by which this could prevent retaliation once discovered gets blurrier.

It could cause a lag between the time that they get blocked and when they realize it — but the scenario by which this could prevent retaliation once discovered gets blurrier.

In retaliation for this, once the moment of danger had passed, Drake excommunicated Fletcher in front of the whole ship, ordered him on pain of death never to come before the mast again and made him wear on his arm the words "Francis Fletcher the Falsest Knave that Liveth".

Once commenced, retaliation is rarely limited to one or two vindictive managers and is likely to include close friends and colleagues who often join in shunning, accusing, and sabotaging the worker who blew the whistle and exposed the elephant in the room -- wrongdoing that was previously kept quiet.

But her decision to play a spurned and sometimes vengeful lover in The Break-Up, she makes clear more than once, was not retaliation.' So that's clear then.

Gunnar meets death at the hands of his enemies when his wife, the beautiful but capricious Hallgerd, in retaliation for a blow he once gave her in anger, refuses him a strand of her hair to string his bow.

He once described Israeli retaliations as "a continuation of our war of independence".