(a.) Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They have a retaliatory doctrine," Salah argued of the police, whose brutality was a major cause of Egypt's 2011 uprising , but who have become more popular after backing Morsi's overthrow.
(2) Kassem has seen this happen in other cases, he says, with placement on no-fly lists used as a retaliatory tactic by law enforcement after approached members of the Muslim community had refused to become informants.
(3) For more than 300,000 Jewish settlers in more than 200 locations in the West Bank, the Israeli military is obliged to intervene if there is retaliatory Palestinian violence.
(4) In a move many saw as retaliatory, Spain tightened controls at the border, leading to queues of up to eight hours for people trying to enter Gibraltar.
(5) Putting an end to retaliatory evictions is a good place to start.” Also in parliament, Labour will lead a vote on amendments tabled to the consumer rights bill in the House of Lords to protect people in the housing market.
(6) As the journalist Anand Gopal has explained brilliantly , powerbrokers such as AWK and the Barakzai strongman and former Kandahar governor Gul Agha Sherzai not only seized control of Nato purse-strings by acquiring lucrative contracts, but they also manipulated US intelligence and US special forces to gain help with their predatory and retaliatory agenda.
(7) The mob violence was followed the next day by retaliatory attacks by gangs of Middle Eastern youths who went on the rampage in the beachside suburb, smashing cars and beating up innocent passers-by.
(8) Her treatment prompted retaliatory action against US diplomats in India that culminated in Washington cancelling a planned trip by its energy secretary, Ernest Moniz.
(9) Nina Ognianova, of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said: “Today’s ruling ordering Khadija Ismayilova freed is cause for celebration, but doesn’t erase the rank injustice of her imprisonment for a year and a half on retaliatory charges.
(10) As hot air was vented on social media, the foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said on Monday that Russia for now would not "fall into hysterics" or take retaliatory measures.
(11) With more effective enforcement, landlords would realise retaliatory eviction costs them more money.
(12) Most military analysts say retaliatory action by the Syrian regime is unlikely, though possible.
(13) Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday that Christian militias – including soldiers of the deposed regime, responding to "rampant abuses" by Muslim armed groups – had killed hundreds around the country, sparking further retaliatory attacks.
(14) In a statement, Ailes called Carlson’s suit “retaliatory for the network’s decision not to renew her contract, which was due to the fact that her disappointingly low ratings were dragging down the afternoon lineup … This defamatory lawsuit is not only offensive, it is wholly without merit and will be defended vigorously.” Ailes’s personal counsel and spokespeople for 21st Century Fox have not replied to requests for comment on the claim that his accusers now number more than 20.
(15) Adenosine is a local hormone or a retaliatory metabolite that executes its effect via a plasma membrane receptor, the R-site.
(16) He warned of retaliatory action and declared that there would be "no winners" in a trade war, according to the official China news agency.
(17) While we have full confidence in Mr Ailes and Mr Doocy, who have served the company brilliantly for over two decades, we have commenced an internal review of the matter.” Ailes also released a statement, in which he called the allegations “defamatory” and “retaliatory for the network’s decision not to renew her contract, which was due to the fact that her disappointingly low ratings were dragging down the afternoon lineup”.
(18) The old policy, I am afraid to say, does not command much confidence.” April 2017: new sanctions against Syria and Russia After last week’s chemical weapons attack in northern Syria , and the retaliatory US missile strike on a Syrian airbase, Johnson returned to the tougher talk now also shared in part by the Trump administration.
(19) The bulk of the casualties in the attacks on churches belonged to the Igbo people , and this has already led to retaliatory attacks in parts of south-eastern Nigeria.
(20) The prime minister, by training a research chemist, acknowledged that the government might be considered negligent for failing to acquire a “retaliatory capability” at the height of the cold war.
Revenge
Definition:
(v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.
(v. t.) To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
(v. i.) To take vengeance; -- with
(n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
(n.) The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.
Example Sentences:
(1) The family of Naftali Frenkel, one of the the murdered Israeli teenagers, has condemned the apparent revenge attack on a Palestinian teenager.
(2) Other steps, such as the introduction of a national stalking helpline and national revenge pornography helpline have assisted victims.
(3) Digital culture has hardly helped, adding revenge porn, trolls and stranger-shaming to the list of uncomfortable modern obstacles.
(4) At Mabhouh's funeral, near Damascus, the Hamas leader Khalid Meshal blamed Israel for the killing, promising revenge and declaring an "open war".
(5) A statement from al-Shabaab on Monday said the latest attack – the deadliest since Westgate – was revenge for the "Kenyan government's brutal oppression of Muslims in Kenya through coercion, intimidation and extrajudicial killings of Muslim scholars".
(6) Revenge would be sweet, having been knocked out by PSG last season , while Chelsea’s Champions League win in 2012 came at the end of a campaign where domestically they struggled – though not quite as egregiously – after André Villas-Boas left mid-season and was replaced by Roberto Di Matteo.
(7) Scores of Jordanians, infuriated by Kasasbeh’s killing, gathered at midnight in a main square in Amman calling for revenge and her quick execution.
(8) England and Wales criminalised revenge porn in April this year.
(9) "On both Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith they were very cagey about going public with the cast until the very last minute, as there were still negotiations going on up to the wire.
(10) And he said yes, and I was so happy – I would have felt bad if he’d said no.” With the noose tightening around Aleppo, Masri says: “Aleppo is the final revenge against the city that was the cradle of the peaceful revolution - a genocide against everyone that does not flee all they have, and the graves of their families.
(11) Mitt Romney praises Trump after 'deal with the devil' dinner Read more “It’s not about revenge, it’s about what’s good for the country, and I’m able to put this stuff behind us,” Trump said in a television interview on NBC’s Today show on Friday.
(12) After Hollande spent two hours on French radio in a patent relaunch of his presidency, a film producer announced that a biopic of Trierweiler’s revenge memoir, Merci Pour Ce Moment (Thank You For This Moment), is now in the works.
(13) Following his defection, Hwang lived in Seoul under tight police security amid fears North Korean agents might try to take revenge.
(14) Evidently fuelled by the agony of losing a series twelve months ago when the trophy was almost within their grasp, they also had the teamwork, technique and experience to turn their quest for revenge into a reality.
(15) On Tuesday, Newsnight seemed to have hit on a neat form of revenge against stay-away ministers.
(16) There was anecdotal evidence to suggest revenge pornography images were being circulated among teenagers in schools and applications such as Snapchat (where photos disappear after a few seconds) were lulling young people into a false sense of security.
(17) Israel recently criminalized revenge porn and Canada , Brazil , and Japan are taking similar steps.
(18) Manchester United 0-2 Arsenal 16 February 2003, fifth round, Old Trafford Arsenal had to wait four years for Cup revenge.
(19) I just saw him in an article on Facebook and I immediately thought: this is not Mered!” A second witness, whose name is known to the Guardian and will be given to the court, asked not to be named specifically because he believes the real smuggler is still at large in Sudan, and could take revenge on his family there.
(20) After so long being derided, is this disco's revenge?