Fight back

The bully hadn't been expecting his victim to fight back, and now the bully has quadriplegia.

During the Pearl Harbor attack, the U.S. Navy began fighting back, and it wouldn't stop until August 1945.

KIRA: You can change their minds. Convince your fellow Cardassians to go on the offensive. DUKAT: No, I'd be wasting my breath. They wouldn't listen to me. No one wants to fight. There was a time when the mere mention of my race inspired fear. And now we're beaten people, afraid to fight back because we don't want to lose what little is left.

With Scott and the outstanding Claire Rafferty in particular fighting back, all was not lost.

The 1928 Royal Commission on Transport not only set some controls for the road haulage industry, it also gave the railway companies the opportunity to fight back.

fight back tears

She tried to fight back her laughter.

It was especially after the Battle of Midway that the U.S. was able to fight the Japanese back toward their home islands.