Collocations withretaliation
These are words often used in combination withretaliation.
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fear of retaliation
This fear of retaliation in future interactions, if one has not behaved well, creates a powerful incentive to cooperate.
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form of retaliation
I hope that it will not be necessary to have recourse to any form of retaliation.
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massive retaliation
The first idea was massive retaliation.
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nuclear retaliation
There is the obvious possibility of nuclear retaliation.
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possibility of retaliation
Optimal tariffs are difficult to implement in practice, given the possibility of retaliation and the inefficiencies in disbursing the collected tariffs.
From theCambridge English Corpus
threat of retaliation
Have you considered a threat of retaliation?
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