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Example sentences for: retaliatory
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Free-trade advocates said they are too strong (they may prompt retaliatory measures from affected countries).
Republicans immediately issued retaliatory fire.
In 1995, a U.S. research rocket launched from Norway brought Russia "a couple of minutes" away from a decision to launch a retaliatory strike.
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.
And it got the U.S. trade representative to impose retaliatory tariffs on Japanese cellular products until impediments to entering Japanese markets were lifted.