retaliations

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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

American forces have at times mounted retaliations, but in limited fashion to avoid instigating a full-fledged conflict.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024

Experts say that the war-fighting plans in general go from warning shots to single strikes to multiple retaliations and that the hardest question is whether there are reliable ways to prevent a conflict from escalating.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2022

And in the case of these Germans and the outrages they had committed and the retaliations they had provoked, he perceived that always there was the element of a perceptible if inadequate justification.

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)