massive retaliation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmassiveandretaliation
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massive
adjective
uk/ˈmæs.ɪv/us/ˈmæs.ɪv/
very large in size, amount, ...
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retaliation
noun[U]
uk/rɪˌtæl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/us/rɪˌtæl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/
the act of hurting someone or doing something harmful to someone because they have done or said something harmful ...
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(Definition ofmassiveandretaliationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The first idea wasmassiveretaliation.
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Otherwise, the inevitablemassiveretaliationcan bring only total disaster.
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The "trip-wire," apparently, is to lead tomassiveretaliation.
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I do not like the expression "massiveretaliation".
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The whole basis ofmassiveretaliationwas in that paragraph.
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That would lead to a policy ofmassiveretaliation.
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I remember his phrase that we will use "massiveretaliation".
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That would invitemassiveretaliationagainst their own cities.
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The whole basis of the cold war wasmassiveretaliation.
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She does have a point when she stresses that 'the flexibility built into the original "massiveretaliation" doctrine' (p. 272) was soon forgotten.
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We shall therefore have returned to the dangerous doctrine ofmassiveretaliation.
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The point is that paragraph 12 contained the reference tomassiveretaliation.
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We cannot go back to a strategy ofmassiveretaliationat a time of nuclear parity.
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The assumption, once the trip-wire has been tripped, is thatmassiveretaliationstarts.
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Technology had improved sincemassiveretaliationwas adopted.
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An imprecise threat ofmassiveretaliationis an invitation to a tough-minded aggressor to call the bluff.
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I asked him that question, and its corollary which is: when does "tactical"become"strategical" and invokemassiveretaliation?
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How would they cope with themassiveretaliationthat would result from the unilateral breaking of those obligations?
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It would mean that nowhere in the world was there any policy other than that ofmassiveretaliation.
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What we have been talking about is not a surgical strike at all; if anything, it is amassiveretaliation.
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Massiveretaliationbecame a cornerstone of national policy and an effective deterrent to perceived threats.
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This modelization gave the basis for themassiveretaliationnuclear doctrine.
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The aim ofmassiveretaliationis to deter an adversary from initially attacking.
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The first—import controls—would result inmassiveretaliationand hit the west midlands worse than any other part of the country.
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