retaliative

Man is being charged with threatening to murder a family member of an acting US official with the intent of interfering with said official’s job performance and duties, or threatening to retaliative against a US official for their specific job performance.

South Korea “will strongly retaliate against any kind of North Korean attacks and the North will have to take all the responsibility for such retaliative actions,” a spokesman for the defense ministry said, quoting a message sent to the North earlier in the day.

It is due to Carlile to observe that the annoyance he marshalled against authority was chiefly retaliative.

Moreover, could the authorities responsible for the peace of the border allow so flagrant an act of dacoity to pass without retaliative measures?

But still I did not feel that anything was to be gained by retaliative abuse; and the truth about him, out of charity, I hesitated to tell.