1710 Retaliatory duties

Alternatively, Israel might launch a pre emptive war against Hezbollah in order to rob Iran of a nearby retaliatory capacity.

India, however, unequivocally condemned the persistence of a fragile situation marked by acts of terrorism and excessively harsh retaliatory measures.

Instead, the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act closed off American markets and provoked other countries into a spiral of retaliatory trade measures.

Taseer s assassination, unlike that of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her bodyguards in 1984, was not a retaliatory revenge attack.

It would still have its full first strike and retaliatory capacity, but, like a bee, it would be able to sting only once.

Where any country to deploy weapon in space, this would have strategic implications, as the unilateral advantage could invite retaliatory measures from others.

Our security agencies must have examined the likelihood of retaliation by jihadi terrorists in Pakistan and India and strengthened security precautions to prevent retaliatory attacks.

Protectionist trade measures, perhaps in the form of a stiff US tariff on Chinese imports, would be profoundly self destructive, even absent the inevitable retaliatory measures.

But Russian leaders are skeptical about the true objectives of a shield, believing that it would undermine Russia s security by curtailing the retaliatory (and thus deterrent) capacity of its nuclear missiles.

Negotiations The Turkish military immediately threatened retaliatory measures, including closing Turkish airspace to US military flights, stopping the use of the southern Incirlik Air Base and sending more troops into northern Iraq.

Such measures may include, but are not limited to, reinstatement, rescission of the retaliatory decision or transfer to another office of that individual or the person who acted in retaliation against the individual.

As the two most significant global trading powers, the United States and China, especially, must fight tendencies in their own countries to raise hidden barriers or take inappropriate retaliatory action designed to placate domestic public opinion.

Conversely, US President Barack Obama promises to get tough on China s currency, and America s Congress is considering a move to force the US Treasury to label China a currency manipulator, paving the way for retaliatory tariffs.

Today, it is preparing retaliatory legislation against China in response to pressure from many in the US who argue that an artificially weak renminbi is contributing to global imbalances, in particular to America s massive bilateral trade deficit.

In the Depression, according to Kindleberger, the US should have provided an open market to foreign goods. Instead, the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act closed off American markets and provoked other countries into a spiral of retaliatory trade measures.

Its nuclear program is strictly in civilian hands. And its nuclear doctrine rests on deterrence, backed by a credible retaliatory threat, rather than a destabilizing first strike capacity, which India has not developed even against a superior potential adversary like China.

Protectionist trade measures, perhaps in the form of a stiff US tariff on Chinese imports, would be profoundly self destructive, even absent the inevitable retaliatory measures. But make no mistake the ground for populist economics is becoming more fertile by the day.

In the same way, we abhor the retaliatory action of militants who were responsible not only for launching rockets and mortars against Israeli targets, but also for setting off what has been described as the worst factional fighting in northern Gaza in years.

Developments like the US Congress s enactment of the Magnitsky Act, portrayed in Russia as an American provocation, have allowed the Kremlin to rally support at home with retaliatory measures such as a ban on foreign adoptions, while providing cover for a crackdown on domestic opponents.

They shall request the State party to ensure that no obstacles are placed in the way of witnesses and other individuals wishing to meet with the designated members of the Committee and that no retaliatory measure is taken against those individuals or their families.