Sentence examples for retaliatory air from inspiring English sources

Secretary of State Warren Christopher thereupon issued the ritual threats of retaliatory air strikes.

It then launched retaliatory air strikes on suspected Shabab camps across the border.

Retaliatory air strikes were at once ordered against Tiger positions in the north of the country.

Activists said the regime had begun launching retaliatory air strikes on the city and much of it fell into darkness with widespread electricity outages.

Media reports spoke of a possible truce in the making after a week of militant rocket fire into southern Israel and retaliatory air strikes against Gaza.

Schools and hospitals bought the flags to fly in the hope that Israel's retaliatory air raids would not take aim at them.

Mr. Barak was facing pressure from right-wing leaders and some northern Israeli community leaders to order an immediate bombardment of Lebanon, similar to the retaliatory air-strikes in June that crippled the Lebanese infrastructure and killed eight civilians.

Last month it murdered 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians, an atrocity that led to retaliatory Egyptian air strikes.

However, the "Mission relaunched" cover of September 27th violated traditional rules of engagement regarding professional courtesies and deserves a retaliatory precision air strike.

In the past fortnight, over 200 home-made rockets have been fired, killing one Israeli, while retaliatory Israeli air strikes have killed some 50 Palestinians, including civilians.

Mladić's forces took U.N. peacekeepers hostage in order to thwart retaliatory NATO air strikes, and, in the final months of the conflict, after taking the town of Srebrenica, "systematically murdered several thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys".