Retaliation

Threats of retaliation are blocking negotiations.

This has allowed snow leopards to hunt markhor instead of descending to relatively low altitude villages to attack precious livestock and being killed in retaliation by angry villagers.

While many snow leopards die at the hands of poachers and the illegal trade, more than half are killed in retaliation for attacks on local herders’ livestock.

Whistleblowers alleged numerous cases of gross mismanagement, retaliation and investigations into staff that had a debilitating effect.

Retaliation is inevitable.

He carried out an act of retaliation.

We expected some sort of retaliation.

The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has issued an ominous military threat toward South Korea, vowing unspecified retaliation over South Korean activists who have floated anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the North.

There was plenty of strafing by fighter planes and sorties by small bomber squadrons, but there was none of the "massive retaliation" of World War II.

In retaliation, Damiano punched Rima.