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Israeli officials have repeatedly threatened to take retaliatory action as well, such as withholding Palestinian tax revenues, expanding settlement construction and even toppling the Palestinian Authority.

If so, Boeing could ask the American Commerce Department to take retaliatory action, or it could lobby the government to challenge Airbus subsidies at the World Trade Organisation.

If the United States does not comply with the Nafta agreement, Mexico can take retaliatory action like placing or raising tariffs on American goods.

The longer the person remains, the more likely the host government will become aware of the request for temporary refuge and possibly take retaliatory action.

However, Mr. Betheil says, "across the board, an employer that would take retaliatory action against an employee for whistle-blowing runs afoul of laws in many states and will open itself to a tremendous amount of adverse investigation and publicity".

But administration officials and many other experts say Iran is still a year or more away from producing an actual weapon, and, if it begins to build one, they will know in time to take retaliatory action.

But unilateral military action by the United States, if successful, might well be used as license for other nations to take retaliatory actions against their real or perceived enemies.

Lucie, a tall woman with steely blue eyes, takes retaliatory action, but she does so by pedaling her bicycle through leafy streets to the state attorney's house.

An executive at Wackenhut said the company had never taken retaliatory action but said he could not comment on personnel matters.

"If nothing else, by their actions, they are telling everyone else in the Police Department that this is a proper way to behave," Mr. Brinckerhoff said of senior police officials who have taken retaliatory action.

As he went about his coalition building, Secretary Powell spoke to European foreign ministers to thank them for the NATO resolution, adopted today, that would be likely to result in military help from the alliance if the United States took retaliatory action.