Sentence examples for retaliatory strike from inspiring English sources

The government launched a retaliatory strike against Islamist rebels in September.

He gives the F.B.I. one more day to find the kidnappers before ordering a retaliatory strike.

A retaliatory strike would have to be ordered quickly; Washington might be destroyed within minutes.

Obama won't change that opinion by authorizing a retaliatory strike against Syria.

By then, military planning for a retaliatory strike was under way.

What if 500 American civilians and military personnel are killed in a North Korean retaliatory strike?

Given the retaliatory strike sure to come from America, went the argument, some supply disruption must be on the cards.

The attack on the mosque on Friday might have been a retaliatory strike against Kenya's Somali community.

I would not want any of these countries to launch a retaliatory strike on the military base one day".

Freeh, who was scheduled to go to Kenya and Tanzania, privately urged that any retaliatory strike be delayed.

Soon each side would be capable of obliterating the other in a retaliatory strike, even after a sneak attack.