0 A retaliatory action is one that is harmful to someone who has done something to harm you: --
1 used to describe an action that is intended to harm someone who has done something to harm you: --
In the conventional context of a high explosive strike or the quasi-conventional context of a chemical attack, we have absolutely no retaliatory posture.
This would have paved the way for a complete reformulation of the tariff reform programme based upon the essentially domestic applications of protectionist, retaliatory and revenue-raising tariffs.
The war episode that is built into the type of equilibrium we have just described is not a retaliatory move implemented to make good on a deterrent threat.
The key aspect of reactive aggression is the response to threat, or, rather, the perception that one is under threat; hence, the term used is retaliatory aggression.
Albeit, these inclusions may not be used liberally by countries as there is always the risk of retaliatory political and economic punishment.
The long-assumed tipping point of indigenous agro-pastoralism in the calamitous 1890s (rinderpest, rebellion and retaliatory land seizures) is shown to have had a class and gender dimension.
This work suggests that humans may be born with the aggressive retaliatory response in their repertoire and may acquire the capacity to inhibit that response during the course of development.
Thus, the contribution of ethology has been to identify a type of aggressive behavior that is an emotionally frenzied self-defensive and retaliatory response to the perception of threat.
