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Example sentences for: retaliatory

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Northern Ireland's troubles increased over Christmas with the murder in the Maze prison of "King Rat," the jailed Protestant terrorist Billy Wright, and the subsequent retaliatory shooting in County Tyrone of a Roman Catholic, Seamus Dillon.
I am not persuaded that a speaker who offends a hearer's sensibilities directly suffers loss of face: loss of face could come about only by some retaliatory action of the hearer's.
Instead, the U.S. should use its pinpoint conventional missiles to make both pre-emptive and retaliatory strikes against nuclear terrorists and rogue states.
Even so, it's worth considering that a more vigorous pursuit of Serbian war criminals, while unlikely to stop every retaliatory killing, might nonetheless send a signal that the world believes justice to be a substitute--not an instrument--for revenge.
Crowley told the Post . Meanwhile, officials anonymously concede that the piecemeal retaliatory strategy is designed to mollify Arab and European leaders.