retaliation
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But others say Seoul has few realistic options for retaliation without further burdening border residents already exposed to disruption and danger.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Others in Santa Fe Springs also alleged retaliation related to the dispute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The United Nations believes the retaliation has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Over the past few weeks she’s received questions about whether auditors can speak freely without retaliation from the labs and if evaluators can gain sufficient access to the necessary materials needed to conduct an audit.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
On my way back to Spanish Harlem, I figured that it wasn’t Fischman that had set that fire in retaliation for Salazar’s death.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
The moves follow a familiar pattern in U.S.-China negotiations of “limited escalations, symbolic retaliations, and carefully timed policy signals designed to probe the other side’s bottom line,” Gao said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025
Mr Raghavan is alluding to two previous major retaliations by India in 2016 and 2019.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025
She and most people I interviewed for this column asked for anonymity, because private enterprises are easy and vulnerable targets for government retaliations.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
The agreement — which still needs to be finalized — comes after years of diplomatic tit-for-tat retaliations that have left the embassy badly understaffed, down from 1,200 personnel five years ago to just 120 now.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2021
What we have grown accustomed to, the bitterness, the recriminations, the persecutions and retaliations, are all the evil weeds of prejudice, growing around our principles and choking them.
From Principles of Freedom by Terence J. (Terence Joseph) MacSwiney
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