Of or relating to or having the nature of retribution.
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Examples for "retaliatory "
Examples for "retaliatory "
1 China last year imposed retaliatory tariffs on American farm goods including pork.
2 China immediately imposed retaliatory taxes on the same value of US products.
3 For example, China puts retaliatory tariffs on US dairy exports into China.
4 Of the retaliatory options available to China, none come without potential risks.
5 But he was adamant that retaliatory violence would only spark more violence.
1 His retributive death was by the hand of an assassin in 1488.
2 And all this, again, in the name of eternal and retributive justice.
3 Thus retributive justice, in the end, overtook these unjust and cruel men.
4 The wrath of man has worked out the retributive justice of God.
5 The vengeance he had so subtly planned had turned into retributive justice.
1 I have already begun my retributory purposes, as I may call them.
2 Answer.-Thereare two sorts of retributory punishments.
3 Spinoza could not regard the bad man as an object of Divine anger and a subject of retributory punishment.
1 So had come vindicatory advertisement gorgeous beyond the little lady's dreams.
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