The government retaliated with a renewed campaign of repression, primarily against activists in the democratic sector.

The opposition and its supporters are also fearful, now that the election is over, that the government might retaliate against them.

Turkey's government would retaliate by closing American military bases there.

The government retaliated for this latest assault with air attacks on rebel positions.

The government retaliated with massacres and forced many Aché into slavery.

The government retaliated with ever higher requirements of compulsory food quotas imposed on peasants' produce.

The Iranian government retaliated by organizing a holocaust cartoon competition.

The government retaliated by imprisoning him for nearly three years without a trial.

The government has retaliated by accusing the military top brass of flouting the rules of business.

He said he believed that the government was retaliating against voters who had supported his party in the election.