"We are very close to that now with Japan, at least in terms of a potential retaliatory response by the United States over two or three controversial items," he said.

For example, a firm could cut prices and increase sales without fear that its actions will prompt retaliatory responses from competitors.

We've seen its retaliatory response.

Insulting or berating a partner may provoke retaliatory responses.

I'm not sure that we could do it without getting a retaliatory response from Korea or even Russia, China maybe even Pakistan.

Whereas proactive aggression is unprovoked and goal-driven, reactive aggression is an angry, retaliatory response to some sort of perceived provocation.

It had to be an American retaliatory response.

You have ten hours to pull back and remove the threat, or there will be a retaliatory response.'

This principle established that any Soviet missile strike against the West would be countered by a full retaliatory nuclear response upon the Soviet Union.

For example, the first-strike nation can use a technique called X-ray pin-down to delay a retaliatory response.