Sentence examples for retaliation rather than from inspiring English sources

Those who do report sexual abuse in custody frequently face retaliation, rather than help.

Sad, but our Republican leadership seems content to conspire behind Washington walls while engaging in political retaliation rather than help punish the real killers of innocent Americans.

While it is reasonable to fully investigate charges of corruption and abuse of office, the justifications given for Ms. Tymoshenko's arrest, and the manner in which she was arrested, now make it unmistakably clear that this is a case of political retaliation, rather than the dispassionate exercise of the rule of law.

It remains one of the very few Android tablets out there that can be easily differentiated, and a refresh to that platform would have given Amazon's device the feeling of retaliation rather than attack.

Traditionally, the United States has employed its military forces in retaliation for an attack rather than striking first itself.

She added: "Their omission allows the BBC to present Israel's assault as a retaliation to Palestinian rockets rather than as an enforcement of its occupation and siege.

They complained that the BBC had reversed footage, to show miners who threw missiles seemingly before the police charge rather than in retaliation for it.

The Taliban have already destroyed 169 girls' schools in Swat, government officials say, and they expect most private schools to stay closed rather than risk retaliation.

The IRA's bombs eventually helped to push British governments into talks on political compromise.But history suggests that, for most protest movements, violence is counterproductive: those that turn the other cheek, opting for civil disobedience, sit-ins and strikes rather than armed retaliation, tend to do best.

The SEA claimed TurkGuvenligi carried out the website hack simply to get attention rather than in retaliation for an attack by the Syrian group on Turkish sites.

China knows these laws well and also knows that following the rules, rather than reckless retaliation, best serves its interests.