Sentence examples for retaliatory force from inspiring English sources

In cities like Ferguson, Mo., Chicago and Baltimore, federal reform addresses unconstitutional stops, searches and arrests, and excessive and retaliatory force.

In some of the US media, that statement was portrayed as a withdrawal of the Guam plan in the face of threats of overwhelming retaliatory force from Donald Trump and US defence secretary James Mattis.

Possessing a secure retaliatory force is the sine qua non of effective deterrence.

That's why we need government: to wield retaliatory force to defend individual rights.

As long as enemies were not crazy or accident prone, the thinking went, a secure retaliatory force should be sufficient to deter nuclear attack.

In a carefully timed attack, up to a third of the Ohios might be caught in port, leaving only nine or ten as the backbone of the retaliatory force, and several of those might be thousands of miles from where they needed to be to conduct a prompt response.

Now, for example, the Fleet Ballistic Missile System can be evaluated in terms of its contribution and cost/effectiveness relationships to the mission of the strategic retaliatory forces.

In the face of such a threat, he said, the only "solid and prudent" course for the United States is to take steps to defend its nuclear retaliatory forces.

In the Department of Defense we find that both the B-52 and the Polaris submarines are program elements in the Strategic Retaliatory Forces.

It indiscriminately condemns government's use of force, erasing the crucial distinction between initiated and retaliatory force--i.e., between force that violates our rights and force that protects them, between force directed against the innocent and force directed against the guilty.

They can serve as a retaliatory strike force in case of nuclear war, threaten military resupply efforts and expand the range of conventional firepower available for use in ­lower-level conflicts.