Sentences with phrase «nations retaliate against»

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Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a wild state of the nation address to the country's elites on Thursday, and he chose to conclude the speech by hyping up a bunch of doomsday nuclear devices and threatening to retaliate against anyone who attacks the US with nuclear force.

If the WTO rules against the United States, it could then authorize the complaining nation to retaliate proportionally.

Critics of the administration complain that it has been slow to retaliate against known nation - state actors.

Both are weighty issues that deal explicitly with «high cosmic justice,» so if he argues that a government overreaches its authority to execute justice by attempting to «balance the books of the universe» in repaying blood with blood, then does that mean there can never be any just criteria for one nation to retaliate against another after an unprovoked attack» an attack that in essence would repay blood with blood?

Though a few nations did retaliate against a few selected products, Smoot - Hawley played only a modest role in the global movements back and forth between protectionism and free trade.

Nations do not always retaliate against acts of aggression, because it will cause a full scale war.

One other problem with submarines, in the event of the doomsday scenario where the nation's leadership is taken out is - who do you retaliate against?