retaliatory measure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofretaliatoryandmeasure
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retaliatory
adjective
uk/rɪˈtæl.i.ə.tər.i/us/rɪˈtæl.i.ə.tɔːr.i/
A retaliatory action is one that is harmful to someone who has done something to ...
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measure
noun
uk/ˈmeʒ.ər/us/ˈmeʒ.ɚ/
a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with ...
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There is no evidence that it is in any way aretaliatorymeasure.
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Nobody suggests that one can take that sort ofretaliatorymeasureunless one establishes a police state.
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Because my students had attended class, therefore, none were vulnerable to the retaliatory measures that the university contemplated.
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The current situation shows that we are liable to incur retaliatory measures, while we simply intend to protect ...
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We believe that at this stage retaliatory measures are undesirable.
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Is it not time that we considered retaliatory measures?
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Furthermore, it would defeat its own object by prompting other nations to take retaliatory measures against us.
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Had it been committed by any other country, such a violation would doubtless have lead to stringent retaliatory measures.
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Both compensatory and retaliatory measures would be proportional to the impairment involved—there is no punitive or coercive element.
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No retaliatory measures have been taken nor do we consider they would be useful.
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We shall do our level best to reach a negotiated agreement that will make retaliatory measures unnecessary.
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Can she also say anything about the timescale over which any retaliatory measures would operate?
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Should not some retaliatory measures be implemented against those countries?
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Does he think that we speak with less authority because we have power in our hands to carry out retaliatory measures?
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Some suggestions were made as to the classes of goods which might be subject to retaliatory measures.
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Any blacklist of carriers bears an inherent risk of retaliatory measures.
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Retaliatory measures or unilateral interventions that violate the law will do nothing to resolve the crisis.
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It was not used because of the retaliatory measures that would have been taken.
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We then hear that there are to be retaliatory measures.
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He has referred to the expediency of employing retaliatory measures when we are prevented from entering the markets of foreign countries.
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