Sentence example with the word 'retaliatory'

retaliatory

amendatory, commutative, counteractive, equivalent, grudgeful, irreconcilable, punitive, reciprocative, restitutive, revanchist, traded, vindictive

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His refusal soon after his inauguration to honour the requisition of the governor of Virginia for three persons charged with assisting a slave to escape from Norfolk, provoked retaliatory measures by the Virginia legislature, in which Mississippi and South Carolina soon joined.   [Please select]

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His vigorous and uncompromising measures, especially his slaughter of the garrison of Drogheda (a retaliatory act), have been severely commented on.   [Please select]

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In the Marquesas it is a recognized, though forbidden, game, and has its retaliatory side.   [Please select]

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The indignation over the action of the Indians was so great that retaliatory measures were determined upon.   [Please select]

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The German artillery was opening a retaliatory fire against its lost positions.   [Please select]

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George Rogers Clark forthwith led a retaliatory expedition against the Miami towns, taking prisoners, recapturing whites, and destroying British trading establishments; and with this final flare-up the Revolution came to an end in the Northwest.   [Please select]

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