retaliatory

Speech parts

1. retaliatory - Adjective

2. retaliatory - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.

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Examples

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. Ayn Rand

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes. Barney Frank

The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism. Vladimir Zhirinovsky

An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?. Moshe Sharett

Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power. John Foster Dulles

When Indian nationalists in their non-violent resistance to Britain rule permit themselves to be beaten prostrate to the ground without retaliatory acts on their part, they are exhibiting coercion and suffering in a form that is not provocative but redemptive. Kirby Page

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