Sentence examples for way of retaliation from inspiring English sources

"Homicide remains homicide," he said, "even if it's by way of retaliation".

Rather, the next pressing question, if Moscow accepts that Isis caused the disaster, is what Russia may do by way of retaliation.

In 1986, by way of retaliation for the US bombardment of Tripoli, a Libyan motor-launch fired rockets at the remote Sicilian island of Lampedusa, 90 miles from Tunisia.

By way of retaliation, he helps nudge the judge's son, the tightly wound Nelson Biederman IV Will Arnettt), into prison, then purposely has himself arrested so he can join him there.

The international hotels here are starting to empty; the restaurants and bars are bringing their tables in off the streets; and a queasy, quiet sense of dread is coiling itself round Nairobi, as the country waits to see what - beyond the two grenade attacks this week - Kenya's military offensive inside neighbouring Somalia might yet provoke by way of retaliation.

On Tuesday afternoon, perhaps by way of retaliation, Trump issued another broadside on Facebook that began, "Obama-Clinton have single-handedly destabilized the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria to ISIS, and allowed our personnel to be slaughtered at Benghazi".

It was a war of retaliation and pursuit.

But prevenge could also be a way of getting your retaliation in first, a pre-emptive payback for all the bad things that each victim is presumed capable of doing.

Rashford's contribution was also a neat way of getting his retaliation in first, bearing in mind the chants in support of Jermain Defoe that could be heard during parts of the night.

We are called to the way of restoration not retaliation.

The initial surge of satisfaction at striking back at the enemy has also given way to nagging fears of retaliation by the terrorists against more Americans.