Similar words: reconciliation, interpretation, hospitalization, variation, alleviation, radiation, negotiation, abbreviation. Meaning: [rɪ‚tælɪ'eɪʃn] n. action taken in return for an injury or offense.
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31. In its first test massive retaliation had won a victory.
32. Debate in the parliament, the Knesset, fluctuated between calls for tough retaliation and counter-arguments urging restraint.
33. Third, it gave as justification for some of its outrages that they were in retaliation for attacks on the army.
34. The fact that literal retaliation by bodily mutilation was legally allowed does not necessarily mean it was practised.
35. City officials denied any retaliation but said they approved the settlement because they feared higher costs from a protracted legal battle.
36. He had the cheek to make personal remarks and expect no retaliation whatever.
37. It is often also the retaliation, not the provocation, that receives the punishment and the attention.
38. But it is all but inconceivable with launch orders, so the possibility for further last-minute retaliation by Boeing is now remote.
39. The demonstrators invited retaliation and got it, with sticks and clubs and arrests.
40. Hugh McPherson, alleges his Army career was cut short in retaliation for his thorough pursuit of the events.
41. With his allegations that politics played a role in contract selection, Keenan makes any attempt to fire him look like retaliation.
42. And no country surges to the head of the field without inviting rapid retaliation by its rivals.
43. Some people were beginning to talk about retaliation or revenge against the authorities responsible.
44. Dulles used massive retaliation as the chief instrument of containment.
45. Retaliation by loyalist gunmen must be avoided at all costs.
46. Congress later established a system for appointing investigators independent of such influence and beyond retaliation.
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47. It's hardly surprising that in retaliation many people regard the pushy salesperson with contempt.
48. I decided on a course of what the strategists over at the Pentagon call Massive Retaliation.
49. In retaliation, the emperor gathered fifty pagan scholars, then challenged her to a religious debate.
50. Officials with the tribunal said Levar is the first tribunal witness to be killed in apparent retaliation for his testimony.
51. Altogether, the DSU strengthened the retaliation system.
52. He endured hardships to plan retaliation.
53. Marine commander Lieutenant General Yoo Nak-joon vowed "thousand-fold" retaliation.
54. Executioners and judges have worn masks to avoid retaliation.
55. Hot-blooded retaliation against a nuclear-armed despot would be fraught with danger for the peninsula, and for relations between America and China, the main backers of south and north respectively.
56. In retaliation the police surged forward, cracking heads with batons , using pepper spray and CS gas, and sirens wailed all around.
57. Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes.
58. If not, we are facing a potential situation of retaliation and a domino effect.
59. Predictably, North Korea has responded to the UN resolution by firing off another round of bellicose threats. Searches of its vessels will provoke military retaliation, the regime says.
60. The two women said they suffered retaliation when they complained.
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