Sentence examples for state in retaliation from inspiring English sources

Modi has been accused of doing little in 2002, the year after he became chief minister, to prevent largely Hindu mobs — led in the main by people affiliated with the B.J.P. and allied organizations — from attacking Muslims throughout the state in retaliation for the death of 58 Hindu pilgrims in a train fire.

Because he has continued to investigate claims of others tortured with the complicity of the British government, Begg says he's been repeatedly harassed by the British state in retaliation for this activism.

Drug manufacturers that don't go along generally lose sales because these states, in retaliation, erect bureaucratic obstacles that complicate patients' access to drugs.

The Iranian oil ministry has denied that it is stopping oil exports to six European states in retaliation for EU sanctions imposed on the Islamic state's key export, shortly after the claims were made by the country's English-language Press TV.

The NLRB believes that Boeing selected South Carolina -- a right-to-work state -- purely in retaliation for a strike in 2008 at the Everett facility.

Bashar al-Assad's regime was facing increasing isolation yesterday with nearly a dozen Western states expelling Syrian envoys in retaliation for the Houla massacre, and with renewed calls for the United Nations to impose far-reaching sanctions.

A state judge today threw out the main charges in a lawsuit filed by the former head of the New Jersey State Police, who had accused the governor and other top state officials of ousting him in retaliation after he was quoted as saying that blacks and Latinos were primarily to blame for the state's drug problems.

Adamson, and many others, believe that the state's RFRA was enacted in retaliation to this change.

Mr. McAuliffe and Herman D. Farrell Jr., the Democratic state chairman, both said that in retaliation for her endorsement, they would boycott a meeting of Democratic leaders in Puerto Rico after the election.

In retaliation, Brazilian state officials attempted to hunt down and locate those responsible for the act.

The alert stated that the threat was in retaliation for the arrests of Pakistanis in Pakistan.