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It removes the need for a hair trigger for retaliation to make your deterrent threat credible.
They're afraid of retaliation.
If we decided that guest workers should have the right to organize without fear of retaliation?
And would their retaliation be considered an act of war?
Many people choose not to become whistle-blowers due to the fear of retaliation.
And when you look at the research, 22 percent of whistle-blowers actually report retaliation.
And it's conflicting because the anger gets all tangled up with the anxiety and the fear and the risk and retaliation.
The number one barrier was actually the exact same as the main barrier that victims report, which is the fear of consequences or retaliation.
As a little retaliation with a just ever so slightly menacing message (Laughter) on the back of the shirt.
That, you know, we're not sufficiently surgical in our retaliation leads to more hatred abroad, more terrorism.
Derek's real father, Noah(Tracy Fraim)fears for his son't safety, and informs, reluctantly, his ex-girlfriend Sarah that the local toymaker, Joe Petto(Mickey Rooney)once was arrested for setting traps in toys to harm kids due to the loss of an unborn child when his wife was killed in a car crash..kind of a retaliation in saying that if he couldn't have a son, then others shouldn't either.
It's almost as if the new ratings given to video games made someone upset so they came up with 'Zero Day' in retaliation.
Zhang Yimou directs this film about a forbidden love that is kept secret for fear of public retaliation.
In apparent retaliation, the FBI director and his entourage are killed in their motorcade while on a visit to Bogota.
Japan became a closed nation in 2067 in retaliation against international restriction on robotic technology.
Bronson's retaliation is classic and I found this movie truly redeeming in the end.
Should Iran possess the ultimate weapon, it might embrace a new restraint in its foreign policy; nuclear-weapons states, precisely because they confront the prospect of nuclear retaliation, have historically tread with caution.
According to a last testament left behind by the attacker, a Swedish citizen named Taimour Abdulwahab, Christmas shoppers in downtown Stockholm had to die in retaliation for “the Swedes’ support” for Lars Vilks, an artist who stirred outrage in the country with drawings of the Prophet Muhammad as a dog.
That provoked Israeli retaliation, starting the Gaza end of the crisis that Iran wanted.
As for Hezbollah, the Israeli military response is by no means confined to retaliation.
If the EU goes ahead with membership negotiations with Cyprus, however, then the Turks in retaliation may block any enlargement of Nato into Eastern Europe.
It is easy to fulfill, because China has already imposed tariffs on US soybeans in retaliation for US tariffs on its exports, meaning that non-US soybean producers are now likely to shift their exports to the Chinese market, freeing up the EU market for US producers.
Likewise, in 2004, Costa Rica’s president decreed that his administration stop advertising in the country’s leading daily newspaper, in retaliation for critical coverage.
Then came 9/11, when – under intense pressure from the United States to support American retaliation in Afghanistan or face the consequences – he was forced to disown his protégés.
They believed that neither side would use nuclear weapons, owing to the fear of retaliation.
Moreover, fake social-media posts in which photos of victims of a Myanmar cyclone were presented as images of Muslims butchered in the northeast spurred some Muslim activists to threaten northeasterners elsewhere in India in retaliation.
Finally, a reputation for offensive capability and a declared policy that keeps open the means of retaliation can help to reinforce deterrence.
To this end, they have eased restrictions on political speech and stopped pursuing harsh retaliation against opponents.
Sudan bore the brunt of US retaliation, when President Bill Clinton ordered the bombing of an apparently harmless pharmaceutical factory near Khartoum as retaliation for an Osama bin Laden sponsored terrorist attack.
Before Clinton, President Ronald Reagan ordered the bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi in Libya in 1986 in retaliation for the bombing of a German disco in which several Americans were killed.
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