This regime is trying to send a message that it's strong enough to retaliate against any possible military attack against Iran, that it's not like its neighbor Iraq, which the Americans could easily invade.
Quotes about retaliate (16 Quotes)
I think I was brought on the show as a means for Bree to retaliate for Rex cheating on her.
That was very distasteful to me, to retaliate so to speak like that (against the Vikings). I do believe the commissioner should look into these kind of clauses. We work so hard on trying to gain labor peace and a new collective bargaining agreement and then we as clubs allow agents to get cute and circumvent it. On the playing field there are rules and there are unwritten rules about how the game should be played in the spirit and the fairness of it all. It doesn't make sense to me that we had to lose such a fine football player this way. I was surprised by the ruling.
There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.
After biting Evander Holyfield This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. He butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.
At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion a process. At some point the bubble is bound to burst and then we do not know what will happen.
The draft says that to deter a potential adversary from using unconventional weapons, the United States must make it believe the United States has both the ability and will to pre-empt or retaliate promptly with responses that are credible and effective. ... repeatedly rejected calls for adoption of 'no first use' policy of nuclear weapons since this policy could undermine deterrence.
Delving into Iran's export mix to see what possible disruptions may surface should the U. N. Security Council impose sanctions on Iran for non-compliant behavior, causing Iran to retaliate in the form of curbing oil exports, Japan is most exposed.
China could choose to retaliate against yesterday's announcement by hiking up prices on a key export to the U.S. or suspending purchase of certain commodities from the U.S,
My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
If they attack us, we will retaliate.
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
That was not too bad. Many more are hostile. We take a lot of verbal abuse. But we cannot retaliate. We say 'thank you' and walk away.
We are slipping back into a war situation. If the attacks go on, there will come a time when the army has to retaliate.
Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.