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In response, the Americans, British, Dutch, and French combined forces to smash the Choshu fortified positions, and Britain retaliated for the assassination by practically leveling the town of Kagoshima in southern Kyushu.
When President Clinton refused to accept such restrictions in the 1996 and 1997 budgets, the House leadership retaliated by threatening to slash and delay family-planning appropriations.
He retaliated by filing one against her.
The Manson band and its fans have retaliated in kind.
McLaren's followers retaliated by taking as hostages two neighbors who had long clamored for the leader's arrest.